sadiej

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1. Staff to Patient Ratio in GI Units

   sadiej posted a topic in Gastroenterology

   What is your staff to patient ratio in your GI lab? How many patients do you normally see in one day? Do you have a cut-off of the number of patients that can be scheduled? If so, how is it enforced? How do you manage lunches and breaks? At my hospit...

2. Nurses advancing endoscopes

   sadiej replied to lmbv55's topic in Gastroenterology

   In our hospital, we have a gastroenterologist who comes once a week from out of town who pushes his own scope. The rest of the time, we have a mixture of internists, surgeons, and family practice docs who do procedures. We push the scopes for 99% of ...

3. Bronch's

   sadiej replied to jaquar's topic in Gastroenterology

   We do anywhere from 1-4 bronchs a month on our unit. They're a bit more trouble because for some pts. we have to call X-ray to bring the fluoro equipment over and place the pt. on the fluoro table. We have to turn on the neg. isolation for the room. ...