Skill Checklists

RN Endoscopy

This checklist was electronically signed on (Today’s date)

Instructions: This checklist is meant to serve as a general guideline for our client facilities as to the level of your skills within your nursing specialty. Please use the scale below to describe your experience/expertise in each area listed below.

Proficiency Scale:

  • 1 = No Experience

  • 2 = Need Training

  • 3 = Able to perform with supervision

  • 4 = Able to perform independently

Procedures

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

Prevention of pressure ulcers

Use of rapid response teams

Administer Conscious Sedation

Fentanyl

Propofol

Demerol

Presedex

Versed

Reversal agents

Pre Procedure

Pre procedure phone calls

Electronic documentation

Patient assessment

Colon prep or re-prep

Pre procedure checklist/consent

IV start, med admin

Post Procedure

Assess for air movement post colonoscopy

Assess for pain

Assess for bowel sounds

Assess for gag reflex post EGD

Assess for gag reflex post bronchoscopy

Recover from MAC

Recover from (moderate) conscious sedation

Discharge outpatients to home

Post procedure phone calls

Age Specific

Newborn/neonate (birth-30 days)

Infant (31 days-1 year)

Toddler (ages 2-3 years)

Preschool (ages 4-5 years)

School age (ages 6-12 years)

Adolescent (ages 13-21 years)

Young adult (ages 22-39 years)

Adult (ages 40-64 years)

Older adult (ages 65-79 years)

Elderly (ages 80+ years)

I hereby certify that ALL information I have provided on this skills checklist and all other documentation is true and accurate. I understand and acknowledge that any misrepresentation or omission may result in disqualification from employment and/or immediate termination.