Preop screening ....

I have never done only pre op screening. Doing it PRN, or doing it for a month every 8 weeks, I enjoyed it. At my current job they try to hire, a nurse, can be a LVN, eventually everyone they hire goes screaming mad if they have to do it another day and need a break!

The duties, what the job entails, can really vary depending on the facility.

I don't work in pre-screening myself, but they are part of our team, so the basics I know are the following.

They rotate between four different jobs(which I am sure I am over simplifying because I don't know their details)

1.pre-screening phone calls the day before the patient is scheduled.

2. pre-op, getting IV started, prescreening again for any contraindications, doing a STOP-BANG assessment and pre-op teaching.

3. Phase II Recovery.

4. Follow-up phone calls after surgery.

The nurses that work over there state they love their schedules. It's a Monday- Friday (Saturdays have been broached but never implemented, we're not quite big enough to support that). So no weekends or holidays and they are never on call. If a patient comes in when that team is gone, then the patient goes to the floor for phase II. (Phase I PACU nurses take call).

I don't know if mdcp will respond? I made an assumption that I knew what pe-op screening meant? I might be entirely wrong.

Now I will probably never know...í ½í¸©.