GI Jackie

I am interested in the call pay at other facilities. We currently get paid $1.00 per hour to carry the beeper and time and a half when we get called in. I would like to know what others are getting paid to be on call for endoscopy and what city and s...

I have never seen a program that lets you start with no on site classes and clinicals. Once you get the degree, you can usually advance with online programs. Good luck!

DO NOT EVER 100% trust the doctor that says "Trust me". They may ask you to do things that make the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Trust your instincts. That doctor has a team of lawyers and a lot of money tied up in his license. He/...

This is one of the funniest posts that I have read in a while!!!!!!!!!!!! We get zip, zero, zilch, nada, nothing! We used to get a coupon for $15 for a turkey that the local grocery donated to all the employees but I guess that was costing the hospit...

If you are serious about nursing school, there are ways to do it without going further into the poor house!. One company we have here is called Physicians Manpower. I don't know alot about them other than some of the girls I went to school with used ...

:deadhorse AMEN to that!!!!

I agree that you have at the tip of your mouse pointer more info than you will ever find in a book. I first started in school with the grand notion of being and MD. So as I sat in school pumping out my sciences, I realized that I would be 30 before I...

WoW! I just took your figures and plugged them into a student loan calculator at the link below......she's right!!! At fifteen percent interest? Good lord woman, you would be better off buying a brand new car and driving the 70 miles each way!!!!! Th...

I have been an endo nurse now for 7 1/2 years. We currently have anesthesia that provides our sedation for our procedures. That being said, if anesthesia is pulled for whatever reason we can and will give sedation for GI procedures. I work in a hospi...

So they base their choices on how rude they can be and how much abuse the staff will take? I highly doubt it. Nobody here is complaining about taking a patient a cup of coffee or a meal. They just want common courtesy and respect. I am not saying...

I don't understand what people are getting so worked up about. We are very much trained, skilled, knowledgeable customer service representatives. You need to keep in mind that the patient is equivalent to your customer. They do have a choice. They do...

I have been in GI for seven years. I can remember a few pts ask us to stop. What our doc did was stop what he was doing and wait until adequate sedation was achieved before continuing and I do not see anything wrong with that. I can remember one pt i...

I am a GI nurse at a hospital and have been for seven years. We have a couple of surgeons and a GI doc that do our scopes. We push the scopes for our surgeons but not for the GI doc. I can see why someone would be hesitant to start this practice and ...

I love the variation in responses. I know that cost of living varies greatly from place to place but I think another question that should have been added would be -- How much does a single family home cost in your area? I read one of the responders s...

I am lucky enough to be in a hospital based endo unit that has anesthesia coveage about 99% of the time. We are all trained and do provide sedation when necessary. I actually like doing sedation, however I do not like the fact that I am taking on mor...

I saw a snippet about this, one of our local docs, not in our facility, is currently using this. My question is that in his TV report he said it inflates the balloons and pulls back the small intestine, then can further advance and do the same again....

In my opinion, I think feeling like a respected and valued part of the team is the most important. If you are devalued constantly, it will effect your job performance and satisfaction. If you feel like you are wanted and needed in your department, th...

I haven't seen anyone say this field, Endo Nursing. I am an Endo Nurse in a GI suite that is hospital based. We do approx 80% outpatient procedures and the rest inpatients. I love it!!!! I wouldn't trade my job for anything. (OK maybe a multi-million...

I don't know which state you work in but in Oklahoma, you only need an ADN to do most staff level nursing jobs. Upper management is different but for staff level such as Public Health, Managed Care and most others that I can think of, you only need a...

JCAHO has one and only one job. TO BOLDLY CREATE AND RECREATE STANDARDS THAT THE INSTITUTION MUST ABIDE BY TO HANG A PLAQUE IN THE LOBBY. When they stop creating "silly nurse tricks", oh I mean standards, regardless of how impractical they are, they ...

By your standards, I would consider myself type AB positive. When I first came out of nursing school I was totally type A. I had something to prove and a chip on my shoulder like everyone was second guessing me. Looking back, I am glad they were. I h...

That is too funny!! I think they are more concerned with transmitting germs to yourself from the nastiness that everyone else brings to the desk. You know the doc that just checked Mr SO-N-SO'S penile prosthesis without gloves and then used your phon...

Our facility used to require a doctors RX to accomodate when I started 7 years ago. Now they have completely eradicated powdered gloves of any kind from our facility. We still have latex gloves but they are not powdered. When I used to have to use th...

I am an Endo nurse and have been for seven years. I have been to many endo conferences in which the doctors discuss the benefits of propofol in the endo suite. We are lucky enough to have CRNA's for our sedation about 90% of the time. As an RN, I do ...