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  1. Shriner's Hospital Cincinnati Ohio

    Chuckie posted a topic in Burn

    The burn unit at Shriner's Hospital in Cincinnati Ohio must be one of the most remarkable burn units in the states. My niece and her daughters were hospitalized there after an explosion at my...

  2. flight nursing in the air force?

    Chuckie replied to KR's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    I've been retired from the 446 th AES sq. McChord AFB Wa. for nearly 15 years now. It sounds like it has changed a lot I was on the C 130 and C 141 with some C 9 experience Loved

  3. GI lab phase 2 recovery room

    Chuckie posted a topic in PACU

    What is the nurse patient ratio in the phase 2 recovery room. We have 6 to eight slots in the gi lab. And one Rn. The rn admits all in patients and recovers and discharges all out patient. This is...

  4. Input from Endoscopy nurses, Please

    Chuckie replied to hgorrondona's topic in Gastroenterology

    I've worked GI for ten years we pull a lot of call and have a multitude of different physicians that like sedation given a different way. One hospital the Anesthesiologists have written the...

  5. GI lab phase2 recovery room

    Chuckie replied to Chuckie's topic in Gastroenterology

    Phase 2 are all conscious sedation gi patients or bronch patients usually Demeral/Versed, Fentanyl Versed and nearly all get Benedryl for sedation. We are free standing somewhat across the street...

  6. GI lab phase2 recovery room

    Chuckie posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    What is the nurse patient ratio in aPhase 2 GI lab. Recovery room? We have one RN with 6-8 patient slots. Usually full with post bronch and gi patients. The rn is responsible for admitting in...

  7. GI lab phase 2 recovery room

    Chuckie replied to Chuckie's topic in PACU

    We are somewhat free standing. We are in a hospital but only admit and recover our patients GI lab and Bronchs. We have one person RN in the room with 6-8 beds this person answers phones admits...

  8. Staffing in ASC

    Chuckie replied to TucsonGINurse's topic in Gastroenterology

    We run two rooms a day 10 hour days 18 cases per room each day. Two Nurses in recovery room 1 RN at least other is PCA, Ma, or LPN Two admit nurses either RN or LPN One RN in each room and one...

  9. is this a california thing? gi tech can't take biopsies!

    Chuckie replied to brownbook's topic in Gastroenterology

    In washington state the only thing an OR tech is able to do in the GI Lab is clean scopes. They have worked in our GI lab for the past 10 years doing nearly everything but sedate the patient which...

  10. how many colonoscopies per day?

    Chuckie replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Gastroenterology

    Two Rooms Two Doctors One Admit Nurse, Per room RN or LPN Sedation RN Per Room, 1 tech per room or if short Floats most of the time Most often this person doesn't exist. One Scope tech 2 Recovery...

  11. Surgical techs in GI LAB

    Chuckie replied to Chuckie's topic in Gastroenterology

    We sit on our butts and eat

  12. Surgical techs in GI LAB

    Chuckie posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    Does anyone use surgical techs in the GI LAB? We have for ten years now all of a sudden there scope of pactice isn't good enough. The only thing I see which they are unable to do is inject through...

  13. Good Sam Hosp onsite daycare?

    Chuckie replied to mamamoosie's topic in Washington Nursing

    Day care at Good Sam is from 0630 to 1800 for infants to kindergarten. After Kindergarten they have a summer program that the kids love. Summer program goes up to age

  14. how many colonoscopies per day?

    Chuckie replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Gastroenterology

    we do18 cases per room per day 0730 colon 0800 colon 0830 egd 0900 colon 0930 colon 1000 egd 1030 colon 1100 colon 1130 egd lunch hopefully 1230 colon 1300 colon 1330 egd 1400 colon 1430 colon 1500...

  15. LPNs laid off because working out of scope of practice

    Chuckie replied to KRoyalty's topic in Gastroenterology

    Oh yes, LPNs can not sedate in the state of Washington. However they can work in GI doing to Physician assistant side of things. This does free up the RN to do the Sedation and monitoring of...

  16. graduating RN with 11 years Endoscopy Tech experience

    Chuckie replied to lizsn's topic in Gastroenterology

    What state are you from? In Washington state OR tech's are working out of there scope of practice if they are working as GI Tech's. We are hiring RN's in the GI lab and are asking for experienced GI...

  17. what is the pay and job availability difference between an rn with an asn or bsn?

    Chuckie replied to cemetarymama's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    No pay difference from Diploma, ADN or BSN. I went back for my BSN in order for a Military Promotion. I retired a year after getting my BSN without the promotion because of personal reasons. The...

  18. Surgical techs in GI LAB

    Chuckie replied to Chuckie's topic in Gastroenterology

    If anyone can help me with this I live in Washington State. The problem was Gi was always under Surgical services and at some point the surgical techs followed to Gi lab out of the surgical suite...

  19. 40-yr-old ADN wants to join army reserves,

    Chuckie replied to staceysue's topic in Government, Military

    Yes go for it. It is so funny to me I retired at age 40 after 22 years in the military. Joining was the best thing I ever did in my life. They paid for my nursing, diploma,degree and masters. Go for...

  20. Surgical techs in GI LAB

    Chuckie replied to Chuckie's topic in Gastroenterology

    LPN's are not hired at our hospital I guess management feels they don't know enough. Now our surgical techs will be PCA and transport patients. The problems is the cuting tissue with a snare techs...

  21. GI RN pay scales and on call staffing concerns

    Chuckie replied to Endo RN's topic in Gastroenterology

    Where is your union that is bad I wouldn't do it. All RN's get paid the same in our hospital depending on years of experience we get $4.oo per hour for call pay and when we get called in we get paid...

  22. Port access

    Chuckie posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    What are some of the policies on accessing ports on patients using a spray numbing med. I know our outpatient clinics use them, however the hospital sticks to stricter policies and do not allow this...

  23. Can non-licensed person start an IV?

    Chuckie replied to carol72's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    We did many IVs in the Military as med techs on base with blood draws. I worked in doctors' offices as a civilian at the time, too, and I found out that I was allowed to do whatever the Dr needed. I...

  24. fired for not practicing out of scope!!

    Chuckie replied to tonka3's topic in Gastroenterology

    How does the Doc do a polypectomy alone. The reason for an assistan is to do the cut with his

  25. questions about colonoscopy procedure

    Chuckie replied to tonka3's topic in Gastroenterology

    We measure cecum time which is after reaching cecum desired time to exit is 7 minutes. Some doc's can get to cecum with in a minute some take much longer. Recovery is 30 minutes usually let patient...