MissChrissy

I work as a tech in our endoscopy center and I also work in Accreditation....and that would NOT go over well with the powers that be. Ive been in the procedure room many times, and Ive seen when things go wrong and I could not imagine only having the...

Lol. That is very ill advised. I assure you that performing a Colonoscopy is NOT a one-person operation. The only reasonable way a doctor can get away with not having any one else in the room is if you have a pristine non-tortorous colon with no poly...

Congrats on 10 years :). You should come to our clinic next time, we use CO2 for colonic insufflation, rarely have a patient complain of severe gas and cramping.

That sounds about right. Our center uses anesthesiologists and CRNAs to give sedation. Besides what you've listed, techs here do pre-op-Bringing the patient back, identifying the right pt/procedure, asking the questions to place in the report (meds/a...

In an outpatient clinic setting... What are the main differences between the job role/responsibilities of an GI technician and a GI nurse (RN)....besides giving sedation?

If you have a pulse you'll be admitted into the program.

I absolutely HATE the sensation of nausea. Even feeling extremely nauseous (with and without vomiting...mostly a lot of retching) for just a day makes me miserable...to the point where even drinking a little bit of water makes you feel that way....I ...

I work at an outpatient GI facility and as techs we start IVs. From my experience of having started on IVs on many people the.. dehydrated, the self-proclaimed "difficult sticks/rollers" ...I've done pretty well. Sure there's an occasion were we need...

As others have said, practice makes perfect (Or at least pretty damn good in this case). When I first started doing IVs my hands would visibly shake, so it was definitely embarrassing and did not instill much confidence. Tip 1) Do not get discourag...

Are you sure that isn't MA school? I mean not to be rude, but if you're willing to spend that much money and time for just a CNA cert, then you deserve that....

Tbh, I believe being an MA isn't worth it-better off getting your ADN. There are some clinics that will pick up CNAs and train them to do MA duties. If you have strong propensity towards learning, then being trained on the job as a MA isn't a diffi...

I work within accreditation.....just curious, in what form is the project for hand washing? training? studies? We mainly do documentation errors through chart reviews What's your new IV protocol? I'm actually not sure if we have a protocol for that, ...

1) ALWAYS ALWAYS change your gloves between patients. Besides the obvious cross contamination issue, the last thing you want is a patient that noticed you did not change your gloves and complains. It can be difficult to do especially if you're juggli...

I don't know what you want me to tell you, this has always been the set up at our facility and so far it's worked pretty well. We are an outpatient clinic, not a hospital so we don't deal with ERCP or EUS. The only procedures we do are Colonoscopies/...

That's what on the job training is for. Never had a pt complain about me starting an IV because I was a tech, I guess you'd be our first if you came in lol. Why would it be risky when there's a CRNA/Anesthesiologist and the Gastroenterologist presen...

What do the techs do when they're not cleaning up and setting up the room and the RN is currently assisting the doc? Just on standby? Takes very little time to get the room clean/set up and the p.t. positioned. Do the techs compute anything? procedur...

Yeah, I think if the tech can only do that, then there's not too much point in having a tech in the procedure room... Techs at our facility- we can do savory and balloon dilation, injections with saline and epinephrine), cytology brushings, hemo clip...

Pretty much what everyone outlined. And can't stress this enough (assuming this is a busy clinic) get the patients out the door quickly! You'll more than likely be doing it to the point where the patients will comment on how this feels like a "revolv...

I guess different places have different scope of practice. We can start IVs as techs and set up saline drips for dehydrated patients. Most of the techs have been cross trained to do pre-op which requires starting the IV. The anesthesiologist only sta...

If the clinic is responsible and only scopes patients that are reasonably healthy (certain BMI cut off, ASA of 1 or 2, non-emergent cases, etc) then emergency situations should be a pretty rare occurrence. The main time when we have to call 9-1-1 or ...

I don't think it would be a disadvantage imo. There's still another MD/OD in the room, even though the anesthesiologist/CRNA would be running the show. Techs can start another IV line, perform chest compression, assisting the doctors/CRNA with airway...

We currently have 4 clinics.... and on average we scope 15-20 patients a day. If we have two rooms running in one clinic we do about 38 procedures. I work as a GI tech, and you'd be surprised at the number people that come in simply for screening tha...

I think it would be really irresponsible not to have a Colonoscopy again. It does suck that you experienced a great deal of discomfort, it happens, but that shouldn't discourage you from getting another one... especially considering with a family hx ...

My honest opinion, I think in the long run it is a bad idea, unless you do not mind being a floor nurse. I think they should either phase out LPN or ADN.

Your set up seems like overkill. You only need a CRNA/Anesthesiologist, a Gastroenterologist, and a Tech. I work at an endoscopy clinic as tech. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by charting. Generally the charts (which are all electronic now) are ...