I have a friend who is a new grad working on a med surg floor for about two months. She is really upset because she has missed her first ten IV starts. Although she hasn't gotten in trouble she wants to know what she can do to get this skill down better. I'm not sure what her error is although I think she may be going "through" both lumens of the vein. Any advice? Why don't hospitals have "skill labs" with state of the art simulators (or not so state of the art simulators) so that someone can practice these skills. If Peyton Manning has a bad game he can go down on the field and throw a few hundred passes to Marvin Harrison. Where does a nurse go when they have a "bad game"?