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Posted by Tech on February 10, 2003 at 17:37:12:In Reply to: CPAP/Split Night Studies posted by zzzgirl on February 10, 2003 at 05:12:00:
I have worked as solitary tech with two patients for the last 7 years. I have always tried to play the cards I was dealt, as it were. I think that for the most part, a competent tech should be able to manage this way, but I don't consider it a good management approach.
As I have always worked where the patients come in at staggered hours, I feel that whenever possible, the titration study should be scheduled second. A baseline or split can be underway and ok on auto pilot while the CPAP patient is being set up, if the baseline pt wants Lights Out right away. The CPAP patient, whom we already know is tired, is thereby not required to keep awake until both patients are ready for Lights Out.
I have seen scheduling done several ways, and I really appreciate a management structure in which the studies are all screened by an RPSGT in the scheduling process, preferably one who routinely does acquisition and is therefore subject to his/her own scheduling.
The competence with which patients are scheduled, especially in the two-patient-one-tech scenario, has a lot to do with the quality of the care the patient gets, and the degree of difficulty the tech will have in providing it.
This is the way scheduling is done at Hospital "A" where I work, and at Hospital "B," where I also work, a secretary just puts the patients into the two bed hopper, and we do them as they come through. I have come to recognize that for this reason alone, nights at Hospital "A" are likely to be good nights, and nights at "B" are likely to be nights filled with unnecessary challenges.
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