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    Jun 26, '12 by
    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Just gross.
  2. Jun 26, '12 by
    Quote from MunoRN
    I'm still stuck on the fact that you draw up meds with sharps, I thought that was a long gone practice.
    We're all needle free to give the med to the patient, but I've never seen any set up that lets you get a med out of a vial without a needle.
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  3. Jun 26, '12 by
    Quote from blondy2061h
    We're all needle free to give the med to the patient, but I've never seen any set up that lets you get a med out of a vial without a needle.
    Spikes are used with vials for needle-free drawing up of the drug. However, we do still have ampules, which I think is ridiculous. In this day and age, we're still cracking open little glass containers?
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  4. Jun 26, '12 by
    Quote from blondy2061h
    We're all needle free to give the med to the patient, but I've never seen any set up that lets you get a med out of a vial without a needle.
    *** We have plastic needles for drawing from a vial. they are a little hard to get into the vial rubber top but I can't imagine breaking skin with one if we were to miss and hit a finger. The same plastic needles are used by neuro surn to test for sensation on their patients.
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  5. Jun 26, '12 by
    they do exist, I tried finding pictures, sigh, dial up strikes again! they have existed for several years, I am thinking they are not cost effective for single use vials?
    Quote from blondy2061h
    We're all needle free to give the med to the patient, but I've never seen any set up that lets you get a med out of a vial without a needle.
  6. Jun 26, '12 by
    Quote from MunoRN
    I'm still stuck on the fact that you draw up meds with sharps, I thought that was a long gone practice.
    *** You would think so wouldn't you? I also work at a VA hospital and while I find the standard of care there to be pretty good, they still engage in lot's and lot's of old fashinoned practices. like using real steel needles for drawing from vials and lot's and lot's of meds that need to be drawn up from vials.
  7. Jun 26, '12 by
    Hmmmm - wonder what other things she does that she doesn't fess up to?
    JHU2016, itsmejuli, SNB1014, and 1 other like this.
  8. Jun 26, '12 by
    I've never seen a needless system for drawing meds out of vials. We still use ampules as well. In over a year of working at my job, we've never had any issues.
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  9. Jun 26, '12 by
    First semester of nursing school a substitute instructor was guiding another student on how to give an injection. The student accidentally poked herself with the needle......the instructor mulled over whether or not the needle was contaminated......decided it wasn't after 5 seconds and told the student to give the injection. I was like: "STOP!!! That needle is contaminated and NO you can NOT use it!!". I physically had to stop my fellow student from giving the patient a contaminated injection. Ugh!!!!!!!
    JHU2016, DeLanaHarvickWannabe, motownmama27, and 2 others like this.
  10. Jun 26, '12 by
    Quote from sapphire18
    Wowww....yeah, that's pretty bad!!! Why do these things keep happening??? It's so frustrating!!
    These things keep happening because hospitals don't want to hire new grads that know better!!! LOL jk, but seriously - do you know how many "experienced" nurses I have seen give the same rationale for IV sticks without gloves?? You are still piercing their skin, they are not colonized with your specific "germies" that you may be resistant to, but they may not. Better safe than sorry I say. I have also seen "experienced" nurses (and MDs) take purulent drainage covered indwelling catheters and wipe them off then re-insert them into the patient with the rationale "they are already colonized" WOW....