OB scrub-on call questions?

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OK here's my question.

Sunday night....no laboring patients.

After 2100 very likely to have no patients at all. We had a scrub tech who had signed up to take call (lives less that 5 min from hospital). The house supervisor states she "has to come in" 3 other nurses here...but none of us scrub. So she is upset that she was made to come in. Do ya'll out there have to have a scrub on the floor at all times? The main OR down stairs requires their OR team 45min to get here at night. As a nurse I always like having a scrub here....but I see her point. What do you guys do at your hospital???

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

OB Call is clock in within 20 minutes or less, if not, you will be written up. We have 2 techs that work night shifts, so there is always someone available right away. Honestly, theyre barely utilized.

If she signed up for the call herself, she needs to get over it...:)

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Specializes in postpartum, nursery, high risk L&D.

we have always had a surgical tech on the unit 24/7 to scrub for sections (nurses don't scrub) until recently. management felt that there was too much "down time" for our techs so now we are going to be covered by techs from the main OR, who may be at home on call at night. they have 20 minutes to punch in.

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Specializes in NICU, High-Risk L&D, IBCLC.

I work in a high-risk unit that has approx. 3,000 births/year. We have 24/7 scrub coverage.

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