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I was curious about what the orientation process is for RNs starting in endoscopy units. We are a medium-sized unit running 4 soon-to-be 5 procedure rooms a day. Each room is staffed by at least one RN and either a second RN or a Tech. Expectat...

Currently, the only advanced procedure we are doing is ERCPs. Other than that, we also do motility studies and, of course, EGD, and Colonoscopies. Looking at a 6-8 week orientation for primarily the EGD and Colonoscopies with a little ERCP training i...

Thank you so much Rose_Queen this sounds like a great idea and is something that would be extremely helpful in providing more structure. I will bring this idea up to management to see if we could adopt something like this.

Just wondering how turnover different places turn over outpatient endoscopy suites. We usually have two people working with he physician in a procedure room. What we do right now for turn over is to call out to the people we have floating ( helping t...

I work in an endoscopy unit where we have very little activity at night. In the case that we're called in for foreign body cases in the middle of the night the egd is done most cases as an outpatient. We go in remove the foreign body ( mainly just fo...

Thanks for your input RainMom. Where I work it is one of the procedural RNs that have to stay and do the phase 2 part of recovery. Just curious to see what others do.

Yes. They want us to have the patient out of the room immediately after procedure and have the next patient in the room hooked up to monitors by the time they finish their notes. The big problem that I see is that a majority of our case...