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  1. Heparin flush and blood collection

    I worked for a pediatric oncology hospital and I keep getting the same question. When a patient's central line, PICC, or SQP is flushed with heparin how long must the nurse wait until she can perform...
  2. My pt died, lab results question?

    Sounds like she had leukemia of some sort. Had her WBC been high before this admission? CLL patients usually have a WBC that gradually increases. If this was a sudden increase, then she had acute...
  3. Pediatric Urine Collection

    I work at a children's cancer hospital and when our patients under go chemo, their urine pH is checked every 15 minutes, 30 minutes or every hour depending on the result. Is there a something better...
  4. Luer-Lok Access Device and Peds

    According to Becton Dickinson, the vacutainer tubes exert 14.7psi. I think most lines have a tolerance of up to
  5. Luer-Lok Access Device and Peds

    Does anyone use the BD Luer-Lok Access Device on Pediatric patients and mores specifically, pediatric oncology
  6. Med Techs work under your license?

    Just for the record, I'm a Med Tech and we DO NOT dispense meds. We are not trained, or licensed. We cannot instruct nurses on how to use a blood warmer because blood is considered a
  7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    I worked in a rural hospital several years ago. The top floor had a psychiatric ward on one end. I got called up there for a blood draw on a new patient. Once I was finished, I left the security desk...
  8. Drawing blood from a PICC line

    You never want to "pop the top" off of a vacutainer tube. If you let the vacuum draw the sample from the syringe, then you get the proper amount of blood to anticoagulant and remove the dilutional...
  9. Venipuncture in LPN school?

    Take a phlebotomy course. Most nursing programs do a "hit and run" training. If you take a phlebotomy course, it focuses only on phlebotomy and the proper technique. Your patients will thank
  10. Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

    Had an a child as inpatient. One of the nurses needed him to collect a urine. When her back was turned, he poured lemonade in the cup. The sample was sent to the lab, and the lab nearly died when they...
  11. Drawing blood from a PICC line

    Is there a better way to draw blood samples from a PICC line other than drawing the sample in a syringe and transfering it to a vacutainer tube?
  12. Most interesting Micro-organism!!

    Bacillus cereus.....causes massive hemolysis and quick death in immunocompromised patients. St. Jude did a study about B. cereus and
  13. Drawing Lab Samples from Hickman Lines

    Someone mentioned using the yellow vacutainer hub and removing the needle from the outside. Maybe I'm missing something, but the needle is one piece so how would I remove the outside needle? Can the...
  14. Our hospital is trying to solve a dilemma. We use a syringe to draw lab samples from a Hickman line then attach a needle and transfer the blood to the vacutainer tubes. We have an increase in clotted...