Overtime Mom

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  1. Can hospitals require you to do "extra" on-call shifts?

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    Can hospitals require you to do "extra" on-call shifts? We've been asked to start doing a "Back Up" call weekend in addition to the "1st Call" weekend we already do. That means twice as many on-call...

  2. Can hospitals require you to do "extra" on-call shifts?

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone. We have become a regional hub for out lying smaller hospitals and are getting acute GI Bleed and ERCP transfers. Sometimes more than one nurse can handle, therefore the backup call...

  3. Disposable Endoscope buttons

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    Do any of you use Steris/Us Endoscopy disposable Endoscope buttons and if so, are you satisfied with their performance???? Thinking of switching to these buttons in our

  4. Savory Dilators Traceability and Storage

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thank

  5. Savory Dilators Traceability and Storage

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    Would like to know how your Endoscopy Lab stores their Savory Dilators. Recent Joint Commission Surveys have cited facilities for storing them flat in the carrying case. Reason: 1. Should hang...

  6. Emergency Bronchoscopy in middle of the night

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    Most Gastroenterology labs, at least inpatient, also have to assist with bronchoscopies. Does your endoscopy team come in during the night even for emergent bronchoscopies in the ICU? Does the...

  7. Savory Dilators Traceability and Storage

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thanks so much for your response! Do you store your Savory Dilators vertically? Possibly in something like this? Dilator Storage - Swinson

  8. Disposable Bronchoscopes

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Critical Care

    I work in the Endoscopy Lab and we get called in during the night for emergent bronchoscopies by the Pulmonologist. Often times the House Supervisor has retrieved the bronchoscope cart for them, due...

  9. Disposable Bronchoscopes

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Critical Care

    Thanks so much for the

  10. Disposable Bronchoscopes

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Critical Care

    Thanks so much for the

  11. Initial insertion of PEG tube: sterile or clean procedure??

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    Can anyone direct me to literature that states whether sterile or just clean technique should be used during endoscopic pull through PEG tube insertion? I have checked the Endovine package insert,...

  12. Initial insertion of PEG tube: sterile or clean procedure??

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    I found an answer in one of SGNA's publications with their position statement on placement of PEG tubes. STERTILE PROCEDURE!!!!!...

  13. Disposable Bronchoscopes

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Critical Care

    Thanks so much for the

  14. Maintaining "trust" with staff as a clinical educator

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    As a department specific clinical educator you are destined to find mistakes made by staff during your daily work. Are you expected to report these to the unit manager? How do you decide when to...

  15. Maintaining "trust" with staff as a clinical educator

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I agree. Yes, I will ask her to do that!

  16. Maintaining "trust" with staff as a clinical educator

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes, I definitely have some of those personality types in the department. I guess when I start the position (in the near future), when it is announced, I will tell them collectively that my job is to...

  17. Maintaining "trust" with staff as a clinical educator

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes, we are encouraged to do self reporting of errors and most do but there are a couple that feel like the Director "doesn't like them" and fear being reprimanded. These are the same ones who have...

  18. Emergency Bronchoscopy in middle of the night

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Have any of you had experience with the Ambu Ascope3 Disposable Bronchoscopes? Our Respiratory Department is looking at this as an alternative to the pulmonologist calling us in during the night....

  19. Emergency Bronchoscopy in middle of the night

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thank you so much for the

  20. Challenges of tranisitioning from staff nurse to Clinical Educator on the same unit.

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thank

  21. Challenges of tranisitioning from staff nurse to Clinical Educator on the same unit.

    Overtime Mom posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If you were promoted from a staff position to the professional/clinical educator position in your department, did you experience a different relationship with your coworkers, (us verses them) or were...

  22. Emergency Bronchoscopy in middle of the night

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thanks so much for the response. We don't have residents as we are not a teaching hospital but we do have O.R. staff in the building 24 hours a day so that is a good suggestion for them to clean the...

  23. 2017 joint commission surveys

    Overtime Mom replied to OvertimeMom's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thanks for your response GiDiva2012! Some other thing I heard about this week are: 1. Precise measuring of the detergent put into the sink for manual cleaning of scopes. Does it follow the...

  24. Challenges of tranisitioning from staff nurse to Clinical Educator on the same unit.

    Overtime Mom replied to Overtime Mom's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thank you so much for the encouraging words. I really hope it goes that smoothly for me

  25. Clinical nurse educators...

    Overtime Mom replied to JaxJax5423's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thanks so