drewba

I am currently employed in a community hospital that has experienced exponential growth during the past 5 years. As a result our existing site rite assisted picc team can be overwhelmed and although our success for bedside placement is greater than 98% some patients require additional fluoro for placement. I would like to know what if any practice regulations there are for nursing inserting PICC's under fluoro? Can we do this? is there any existing arrangements whereby a radiologist must be in the room at time of fluoro. I am sure there are implications for billing as well. I would greatly appreciate anyones time and input regarding this query as we try to amalgamate skills in this area to provide optimal patient outcome cost effectively. Look forward to hearing. I currently practice in NY state. I also responded to angiorn with this as well.Don't want to create any confusion but am looking for reply regarding this practice for nurses. Drewba

We are an evolving IR department in a moderately sized hospital and will be negotiating a fair and equitable plan for on-call pay. I would appreciate any input as to what the industry standard is for on-call pay. I am already aware of one hospital within the vicinity that pays their nurses 2 hours straight pay for every eight hours of scheduled on-call time whether or not it falls on a weekend. What do you do? Drewba

I am currently employed in a community hospital that has experienced exponential growth during the past 5 years. As a result our existing site rite assisted picc team can be overwhelmed and although our success for bedside placement is greater than 98% some patients require additional fluoro for placement. I would like to know what if any practice regulations there are fro nursing inseeting PICC's under fluoro? Can we do this? is there any existing arrangements whereby a radiologist must be inthe room at time of fluoro. I am sure there is implications for billing as well. I would greatly appreciate anyones time and input regarding this query as we try to amalgamate skills in this area to provide optimal patient outcome cost effectively. Look forward to hearing. I curently practice in NY state. Drewba