I am a certified gastroenterology and critical care nurse with 17 years of gastrointestinal (GI) experience in addition to more than 20 years of critical care nursing.  I am presently working in a hospital-based full-service gastroenterology unit, which cares for both inpatients and outpatients.  The type of services provided include esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), cholangioscopy, endoscopic ultrasound and fine needle aspiration (EUS + FNA), endobronchial ultrasound and fine needle aspiration (EBUS + FNA), endomicroscopy, chromoendoscopy, capsule endoscopy, esophageal and rectal manometry, Bravo pH monitoring, and 24 hour ambulatory pH/impedance monitoring.  These procedures may also entail doing biopsies, placing stents, removing polyps, variceal banding, radiofrequency ablation, mucosal resections, dilation of strictures, and removal of foreign bodies.

 

I love working in GI and refer to myself as GI Judy.  I am also currently a student in the Master of Nursing program at the College of Nursing University of Texas Arlington.