Endoscopy Nurse

Who these nurses care for

Patients undergoing GI and bronchoscopic procedures, with moderate sedation.

What the shift actually looks like

Back-to-back procedures with moderate sedation, short recovery cycles and a predictable finish time — which is why the role is popular and turns over slowly.

Credentials and certifications

Typically required

BLS, ACLS; moderate sedation competency

Typical ratio

Case-based

What to specify when you send the req

Sedation model, procedure mix, and whether nurses recover their own patients.

Why this role is hard to fill

Moderate sedation competency is state- and facility-regulated and is the item most often assumed rather than verified.

What candidates ask before accepting

Answering these in the req itself shortens the process considerably, because they are the questions that otherwise surface at offer stage and cause declines: Sedation model, whether nurses recover their own patients, and procedure volume per day.

Contract or permanent?

Contract for census swings, leave coverage and seasonal surge. Per diem to protect ratios without expanding core FTE. Permanent when the seat is structural. The expensive mistake is running contract labour for eighteen months on a role that was always permanent.

Licensure

Registered nursing is covered by the Nurse Licensure Compact in most of the country, so a multistate license lets a nurse work across member states without a new application. Thirteen jurisdictions sit outside it — Alaska, California, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands — and in those markets every out-of-state nurse needs a single-state license first. Those are the markets where reqs stay open longest.

How we work this req

Every candidate is spoken to before you see them, with licensure for your state, certifications and unit-specific competency confirmed before submittal. We screen to the credential the unit actually needs rather than the title on the posting. Rates sit inside the ranges on our published cost breakdown.