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What do the Equipment Library Managers come under in the profiles? I can't seem to find a specific discipline applicable here in any of the publications....

Anyone?

exit,
This is a relatively new function and each Hospital that manages an equipment library does it in a different way. One of our techs supervises our small equipment library. Our library is very small with approximately 80 items in stock at any one time. (Pumps, syringe drivers, monitors, matresses). It depends on the function and number of staff. We only have one full time SATO responsible for the library. If she has a problem she reports to Tony who supervises the Library, who then reports to me. I think you would need to look at the activity and responsibility and then draw up a job desc comparable to an MTOx grade that is suitable.

Cheers John,

I was thinking that might be the case. Our guy in here,(500 bed/10 theatre acute hospital)is an ATO and I feel he should get a bit more that this especially when you read the jobs section advertising for MTO4/'G's etc.

We've been trying (without success) to set up a library for about 3 years now. Most of the other hospitals we've spoken to and visited have a senior nurse in charge of the library - sometimes directly or more usually as part of their role as hospital manager. The reasoning behind this seems to be that if two wards request the same pice of kit at the same time, the decision as to who gets it needs to be made on the basis of clinical need - so you need a senior clinical person to make it.

We intend to run it (if we ever get it !) as part of EBME and the person running it will be a technician who reports to me. That way we can service / check the equipment each time it passes through the library. One of the nurse managers or senior sisters will provide the clinical support as required. So our librarian will be an MTO grade equivalent under the new AfC bands. We've put an MTO3 in the business case - but we'll have to wait and see.

Hope that helps.