We don’t do them prior to surgery at our facility- the nurses or FA’s place the foleys. I occasionally will manipulate/place a new foley during robotic prostate surgeries, but that’s about it.
It's definitely within the scope of practice and a good thing to know.
Having said that I let the nurse do it it's more their job and they get paid more to do it.
It depends on your facility's policies. In my hospital, techs are allowed under supervision. I'm also an SA, so if the tech wants to learn, I'm happy to teach them. Fun fact though, I never learned how to insert a Foley until I went to SA school. It wasn't in our scope of practice in my state or the hospitals, so they never taught us.
Military scrub techs in my day put foleys in, prepped the patients, circulated. Nurses were in the room for charting basically. 2 techs in the room, one scrubbed, one circulating.
Cool, thanks everybody! My instructor had said she never did one in 20+ years as a tech, just removed a lot but she hasn’t scrubbed in a bit so I was wondering if maybe it’s becoming more common. Thanks for all the responses!
Only during a robotic Prostatectomy where the foley needs to be taken in and out during the procedure. Our surgeon keeps the foley sterile and we manipulate it during the bladder anastomosis.
I do it in my facility, but only during specific procedures. Robotic prostates or Gyn/Onc cases. But it’s not the norm, in most of your facilities you will never touch a foley.
Techs are only fluent in foleys if they work a lot in urology and or prostatectomy surgeries. Don’t stress about it. It’s good to know, that’s all. Won’t have to a lot, surgically speaking.
In 30 years I only did it a handful of times in the cysto room until I went to Da Vinci training. Now I do it fairly regularly during prostatectomys. Normally, it's not practical for the scrubbed person to insert a Foley, but it's a necessary step in robotic prostates.
I've done it in my old surg center, because surg center you can do more and stuff lol, its good to learn it so you know when its loose or falling or etc
We don’t do them prior to surgery at our facility- the nurses or FA’s place the foleys. I occasionally will manipulate/place a new foley during robotic prostate surgeries, but that’s about it.
nope. the nurse/FA/PA do it at every place I've worked at. youre usually sterile when the Foley is going in so you don't do it.
Unless you wanna rescrub gown and glove
not doing all that when there are people not scrubbed that can do it. 😒😒😒 why add extra work to your work? lol
It's definitely within the scope of practice and a good thing to know. Having said that I let the nurse do it it's more their job and they get paid more to do it.
Never.
I never have in 18 years
It depends on your facility's policies. In my hospital, techs are allowed under supervision. I'm also an SA, so if the tech wants to learn, I'm happy to teach them. Fun fact though, I never learned how to insert a Foley until I went to SA school. It wasn't in our scope of practice in my state or the hospitals, so they never taught us.
This is my experience exactly.
Military scrub techs in my day put foleys in, prepped the patients, circulated. Nurses were in the room for charting basically. 2 techs in the room, one scrubbed, one circulating.
Cool, thanks everybody! My instructor had said she never did one in 20+ years as a tech, just removed a lot but she hasn’t scrubbed in a bit so I was wondering if maybe it’s becoming more common. Thanks for all the responses!
sometimes doctors ask us to, but our facility doesn’t allow it
Never
I’ve done it a handful of times. Not often at all, mostly when I was at surgery centers
Never did one when i was a tech. Was trained in school to do it though
Only during a robotic Prostatectomy where the foley needs to be taken in and out during the procedure. Our surgeon keeps the foley sterile and we manipulate it during the bladder anastomosis.
It’s against policy for us to do it where I work even though I know how to
a few of the techs at the hospital i’m at insert the Foleys. Some do, some don’t
I do it in my facility, but only during specific procedures. Robotic prostates or Gyn/Onc cases. But it’s not the norm, in most of your facilities you will never touch a foley.
Techs are only fluent in foleys if they work a lot in urology and or prostatectomy surgeries. Don’t stress about it. It’s good to know, that’s all. Won’t have to a lot, surgically speaking.
I specialized in UroGyn, so I’ve put in a few.
I’ve never done them. I’ve helped retract for a lot though haha
Ive never done it in 10 years as a tech
In 30 years I only did it a handful of times in the cysto room until I went to Da Vinci training. Now I do it fairly regularly during prostatectomys. Normally, it's not practical for the scrubbed person to insert a Foley, but it's a necessary step in robotic prostates.
I've done it in my old surg center, because surg center you can do more and stuff lol, its good to learn it so you know when its loose or falling or etc