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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 brothers house in Garrett IN. There wedding was on the R...

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 it

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 somewhat dangerous and. I was wondering if all fac...

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 procedural sedation policy and for the most part it is fine...

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 from the hospital. The OR patients go to phase I the...

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 patients and recovering all patients with no other sup...

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 discharges recovers and calls the floors for patients ...

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 either LPN,MA or Surgical Assistant, PCA One Scope wash...

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 takes an RN. About 6 months back someone found a pi...

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 room Nurses either RN or LPN All meds drawn up at be...

We sit on our butts and eat bonbons.

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 the scope, like epinephrine and ink. They current...

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 12.

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 egd 1530 colon 1600 colon 1630 egd 1700 clean up go ...

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 patients.

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 Nurses. Puyallup WA

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 BSN did help me get better jobs rather than just flo...

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 and the idea was that if they were able to do all th...

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 it.

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 are not allowed to do that or inject through a sco...

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 for 4 hours of overtime even if the procedure is c...

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 use. I had a patient complaint against me for not...

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 did x-rays, blood draws, and IV starts I was not li...

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

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 sleep 10 minutes then get them a drink and take o...