Endonurse: Features/Columns

Endo All Stars: Efficient Team Helps Business Grow Fast

Some managers are stoic and unexpressive, and some teams aren’t worth praise. Neither is the case at Western CT Health Network, in Danbury, Conn., where manager Cathy Kean isn’t shy about praising her team, and where there's no shortage of talented employees. ...More

September 15, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues

Morristown Memorial Endo Team: Going Above and Beyond

I have been a nurse at Morristown Memorial Hospital for 12 years, and these are some of the finest people with whom I've ever worked. They are particularly great in the Center for Digestive Health. I started there in December of 2009 and have had nothing but positive ...More

July 11, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues

Combating Stress as an Endoscopy Professional

As an endoscopy nurse it is likely you experience a range of emotions during any given day, including anxiety or stress. Brought on by erratic hours, physical fatigue, demands from doctors and patients; coupled with the strain trying to balance a family or personal life can ...More

July 8, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues

Scope Cleaning: Building Quality Control into the Monitoring Process

As an infection-control scientist for Olympus, one of the most common customer questions I receive from healthcare facilities is how they can effectively monitor their scope-cleaning process to ensure they are achieving the best results. They are taking a first step in the ...More

July 7, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues, Procedures

The Endoscopy Operating Room of the Future

Over the past 20 years, the operating room has evolved dramatically. Minimally invasive surgery has created a footprint of new technologies and devices that were foreign to the traditional operating room. ...More

July 6, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues, Procedures

Puget Sound Gastroenterology: A Diverse Team

The staff members of Puget Sound Gastroenterology, in Edmonds, Wash., don't just talk the talk when it comes to colorectal-cancer awareness, they walk the walk. The team members who are 50 or above have been screened for colon cancer at least once, and every March the team ...More

July 6, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues

The Plastic Biliary Stent

Plastic biliary stent, endoscopy, endoscopic biliary stenting, Sandeep Patel, choledochoduodenostomy, biliary decompression ...More

July 1, 2011

Posted in Articles, Procedures

Propofol: Who (or What) Should be Allowed to Administer It?

Mention the word propofol before the summer of 2009 and you would have likely received blank stares unless you were speaking to a healthcare professional. That all changed June 25, 2009, when the King of Pop Michael Jackson died of what was later found to be a propofol ...More

June 30, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues, Procedures

Smart Diagnosis and Treatment of IBS

Folks in medicine have been not overly smart about the diagnosis and the management of the disorder that we have variously called spastic colitis, mucous colitis, or irritable bowel syndrome. First ascribed to hysterical women or malingerers, and first described by Dr. ...More

June 27, 2011

Posted in Articles, Disorders, Procedures

Leadership and Sterile Processing

Leadership is very different than management. The need for it is as critical, if not more so, than managing a service, a function or even a surgical facility. Frankly, without leadership, management efforts often flounder. ...More

June 22, 2011

Posted in Articles, Industry Issues, Procedures

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