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EndoNurse is now offering a forum for reader questions. Consumers and healthcare professionals can submit a question and our panel of experts will answer it.
Bradley Catalone, Ph.D., director of research at Olympus America, is one of many experts available to answer your questions about endoscopy-related issues.
Send your questions to: mbeaver@vpico.com
- What are the Guidelines for Processing STERIS Equipment?
Question:I am employed as an endoscopy nurse at a freestanding endoscopy/surgery facility. For our Fujinon endoscopes, we manually clean first and then the AER, followed by alcohol flush. We follow the current SGNA guideline regarding scope reprocessing.There is a group within our facility who use Olympus endoscopes, clean manually, then use the STERIS. Their feeling is that the STERIS "blows ...
- What are Proper Nurse to Patient Ratios for a Digestive Health Clinic?
QuestionI am looking for current evidence-based practice information on the nurse-to-patient ratio for pre/post op in our digestive health center. Our facility has a nurse-to-patient ratio for the med/surg floor of 1:5. I do not feel this is a safe practice for recovering patients from conscious sedation. I have found information for Phase 1 recovery (1:1 and 1:2 for OB, and CCU at 1:2 and ...
- What are the Requirements for Training a Scrub Tech?
QuestionI work in a small hospital in a rural setting. As you can imagine, we have staffing issues. Currently we use scrub techs, but we have a very bright young lady in our department cleaning rooms and scopes, who we think is trainable. Short of completing a scrub tech course is there any way we can train her to scrub? ...
- When Should Suction Canisters Be Emptied?
The following is from the “Reader Questions” section of the editor’s letter page that ran in the October/November issue of EndoNurse. A submitted answer is below. Q: Is it a policy to change your suction canister with every case or do you wait until it is full? -RN, CGRNA: I have been an endoscopy nurse for eighteen years, a nurse manager for ...
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