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| Carondelet St Mary’s Hospital 1601 W. St Mary’s Road Tucson, AZ 85745 Contact person: Regina Machado (520) 872-6002 Questions: 1. What is the name of your department? RAPP – Radiology Admitting Pre/Post Procedural unit 2. What administrative area does your department /area fall under CEO - Odette Bolano Associate Administrator Operations - Derrick Jones 3. What is the management structure? Director of Imaging: Tag Leonard Manager: Holly Berghorn Lead Nurse: Debbie Meyer Lead Tech for each department, ie CT, US, MRI 4. What type of radiology procedures requiring nursing care are performed at your hospital? US: Biopsies, Breast needle localization, aspirations, paracentesis, thoracentesis CT: Biopsies, drain placements, coronary CTA, ablations MRI: monitor during sedation Rad: Bronchoscopies, portacath injections, myelogram, lumbar puncture Specials: Nephrostomy Tube Placement/Check, angiogram, embolization, chemoembolization, biliary tube placement, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, nerve root block, epidural steroid injection, discograms Nuclear Med: persantine thallium, captopril renogram 5. How many staff? (RN’s, RT’s, other) What credentials are required? Six (6) RN cover US, CT, MRI, Radiology area and RAPP; 2 RN work in the Nuclear Medicine department Six (6) US ; eight (8) CT; five (5) MRI; twenty (20) radiology technologists. Four (4) nuclear medicine techs 6. How many MD’s are assigned on a daily basis? Arizona State Radiology has 11 radiologists. They cover St Mary’s Hospital plus 4 other facilities. Two neuro-radiologists and 2 interventional radiologists work at St Mary’s from Monday to Friday. One doctor is on call on evenings and weekends with a back up call doctor. 7. Who admits/preps the patient? Who recovers/discharges the patient? RAPP unit has 5 beds available for admission and recovery of outpatients. Inpatients go directly to the department ( ie, CT, US, etc) for procedures. 8. Who transports? Two transporters are assigned to transport inpatients to imaging departments 9. Call (what hours, pay, response time, etc) One RN is on call from 1600 to 0700 weekdays and 24 hours on weekends. Two angio technologists are also on call to cover specials. 10. JC concerns? Keeping up with standards 11. How to contact the department? Radiology Nurses station (520) 872-6002 St Mary’s Hospital (520) 872-3000 Radiology Extension # 1617 |
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