Inpatient Acute Care Facility

Trauma Center

Academic/Teaching Facility

Outpatient Care Facility

Long term care/Skilled Nursing

Clinic/Ambulatory

Home Health Setting

Assist with EGD’s

Assist with endoscopic ultrasound

Assist with active GI bleed

Cautery devices

Assist with manometry studies

Assist with variceal banding

Assist with esophageal dilatations

Assist with esophageal ballooning

Assist with scelrotherapy

Assist with TEE

Assist with bronchoscopy

Assist with colonoscopy

Assist with polypectomy

Assist with ERCP’s

Assist with PEG placements

Assist with liver BX

Assist with collection of hot & cold BX’s

Specimen collection & labeling

Set up of scopes & video equipment

Apply external abdominal pressure to assist with scope movement

Scope cleaning

Assist with mobile cases, ICU, ER, etc.

Radiation safety

Automated Medication Dispensing System, Pyxis, Omnicell, or other

Takes call for emergency cases

National Patient Safety Goals

Awareness of HCAHPS

Accurate patient identification

Effective communication

Interpretation & communication of lab values

Medication administration

Labeling (medications & specimens)

Anticoagulation therapy

Monitoring conscious sedation

Pain assessment & management

Infection control

Universal precautions

Isolation

Minimize risk for falls