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hehehe yes... But if you need an order before initiating it then i am concluding it is a dependent function?
I am making an NCP and creating my own intervention, I am planning to put
"Anticipate IV Fluid therapy by preparing route for IV transfusion"
If that function is independent, I think that intervention is unecessary :)
thanks a lot for your insight... still waiting for other answers though.
Hemorrhagic fever is not normally seen in the US, and if you are in most places where it does occur, you may be the only provider there. And they are going to need much more to save them than IV fluids.
Not sure if you are doing a care plan specifically for that disease or if you are in the US.
This is one of those situations where reality deviates from the textbook response in actual practice. As several have already said, you insert the IV (usually a saline lock) and then get the order. However, I would also like to point out, that by the time the patient is looking bad enough to possibly be in shock, the doctor should have been notified and that would have been the time to inquire about putting an IV access in. Most docs won't get upset at doing this procedure independently (unless it takes you 5 sticks and the patient is left all bruised up). It's easily remedied by removing it.
Dervid Jungco
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Can a nurse initiate IV therapy on their own once they assesed that the patient is starting to undergo shock due to hemorrhagic fever ? or should we wait for doctors order before doing so?