mvnRN

It’s not a great work environment at all. I’m on call this week actually. I’m kind of brushed off by the anm when I talk to her about it and she thanks me for being understanding/flexible about my less than ideal orientation (I also didn’t mention that I was redeployed to work float pool for 6 weeks in April/May when the lab was slow due to covid). The actual manager is newer to the department than I am and we don’t really have an educator either.

Thanks I’ll definitely look into it! That’s kind of what I’m looking for, rationales to what I’m seeing/doing during the procedures.

I left the floor during covid to start a new position in the GI lab. I like it a lot so far but with everything going on with covid my orientation was kind of cut short unfortunately. I’m on my own now which is okay for the most part I am comfortably independent in pre/post and general GI but I still have so much to learn. Our lab does general uppers/colons as well as eus, ercp, pegs, bravos, endo flips, and motility studies. One problem now is this GI lab is not an awesome learning environment. I don’t have one true mentor/preceptor and a lot of the nurses I’m learning from just do things the way they’ve been doing them for 20+ years so I don’t know that I’m always learning best practice. My main issue though is that the GIs I’m working with don’t like talking during procedures. I have so many questions that I don’t get the chance to ask because there is no talking during procedure and everyone is rushed and running around flipping the room between procedures. With all that being said if anyone has any resources where I can learn more about endoscopy nursing in my own time I would really appreciate it!

For our outpatients receiving propofol they get one initial set of vitals and a second set in 15 minutes. If VSS they dc home. Most spend 20ish minutes in recovery.