Nurses Performing Ultrasound

[xtymae]

I want to know why nurses perform ultrasound? what factors do influences them to perform ultrasound in hospitals and clinics? i also want to know if it is legal for nurses to handle ultrasound procedures and do the scanning? what are the major reason why nurses are the one performing ultrasound examinations?

[THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN]

Besides this being an obvious homework question. In my neck of the woods, they don't do ultrasounds.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

Bladder scanners and vein-finding technology are both using ultrasoundography, correct?

Other than that...no...ultrasound techs do it. And in OB, only the docs did it.

[xtymae]

yes, they don't do ultrasound but some of them are. in the philippines, there are a lot of nurses who are performing ultrasound though it is illegal as stated in the Republic Act 7431. and that's what i want to know "the reason why they want to perform ultrasound" though it is the duty of Radiologic Technologists.

[xtymae]

i know that it is not the job of nurses to perform ultrasound. but still there are nurses who are performing it like abdominal ultrasound, pelvic ultrasound, renal ultrasound, gynecological ultrasound and 2D echocardiography. most of nurses are employed in the ultrasound department in many hospitals. i don't know why this happens. Will someone please help me to know why??? It is for my research paper. thank you.

[THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN]

i know that it is not the job of nurses to perform ultrasound. but still there are nurses who are performing it like abdominal ultrasound, pelvic ultrasound, renal ultrasound, gynecological ultrasound and 2D echocardiography. most of nurses are employed in the ultrasound department in many hospitals. i don't know why this happens. Will someone please help me to know why??? It is for my research paper. thank you.

Well I don't know because I'm in America

[THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN]

I would advise you to post this in the Phillipines section.

[xtymae]

thank you.

[xtymae]

for you, what do you think will be the effect if nurses invade the practice of radiologic technologists?

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

for you, what do you think will be the effect if nurses invade the practice of radiologic technologists?

Similar to the effect of rad techs practicing nursing.

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

In the U.S. I've worked at hospitals where we were terrines to use them to find veins on difficult sticks and I've used bladder scanners. They're just too,s to help us do our job. Unfortunately you will probably have to find answers to your homework on websites and sources more specific to your country.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Radiological techs that perform ultrasound in America--very specialized education. As a nurse, I wouldn't want the liability of performing ultrasounds and not be certified to do so. Too huge of a margin for error. And every ultrasound needs to be reviewed and diagnosed by an MD.

And you need to know what you are looking at, and what purpose you are serving--kidneys/liver/abdomen--all look the same under that hazy stuff.

Yes nurses do perform bladder scans--but MD's usually have to review before any intervention happens.

There are fetal ultrasounds for the purpose of many things, but there needs to be specialized measurements, criteria, policy, and an MD present.

IF what you are getting at is that ultrasounds are sometimes performed in abortion clinics for the purpose of guilting a woman into changing her mind, then I am not sure why any nurse would want to get into any of that. Then it becomes a tactic as opposed to a medical procedure.