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Agreed, these patients are extremely high risk and not candidates for open intervention. This procedure buys patients time but more so quality of life that they did not have. My facility is approx. 2 years into a TAVR program. The collaboration among the disciplines has been amazing. The OR nursing staff has been amazing, as well as the surgeons. The cath lab staff that has been privileged to participate love this collaboration and both sides have excelled. New technology and product are being advanced and this is quickly becoming a growing/evolving procedure for this very sick population.

I think that if you are non nursing it is a 2 part test, but nursing it is one part. The lab I work in is trying to strong arm everyone into taking it. I would rather take the CCRN or some certification that is specific to nursing. This allows Radtechs,CVTs,Resp therapist, and I think anyone who is grandfathered into the cath lab if you do not have an allied health degree to be RCIS certified. I was hoping to see the benefit in taking this test... I work in a lab where there are a good mixture of talents. Everyone can do everyone else's job, so we all rotate through the roles, and yes non nursing personel give drugs...under the physcian's license( I don't think that all the docs are aware of that fact) anyway, so someone that does not have an allied health degree but has an RCIS is considered just as good as the nurse standing next to me. Interesting huh?

I am interested in finding out if there are other labs that are making their nursing staff to take the RCIS?

I am sorry to say that if I had the oppertunity to look else where I would . It seems that the one respondant was correct, the overall attitude of administration is "if you don't like it go else where". In addition, it is well known that there is a "good ole boys club" that is fully operational. They do not value their nursing staff, they tolerate many unfortunate things from physcians, espeacially ones that should have had there liceneses yanked years ago for unspeakable acts to the patients and staff alike.Most of the staff there feels that they are stuck because of family matters, economics etc. It seems as though they consistantly violate thier own corporate compliance policies and on a case by case basis subscribe to a double standard. I have never heard of a physcian that was able to strike a patient , cuse the patient and still remain in practice, even after the physcian was sued for malpractice in the death of a patient (not to mention numerous complaints from differant staff of verbal abuse to patients and staff and throwing things at staff). We all know as health care givers even if these acts were"unintentional " we would be looking for new careers... so to expand, I would not reccomend MOSES CONE

The cath lab is a very differant place to work . I love it ! In my lab we rely on each other as an extension of each other. Every position is rotated( scrub,circ and monitor) , I work with cvts, rrt, rns. . Believe it or not it works great. There is no other place I would rather work>