Air in IV flush syringe??

[samiam4]

Is it just me or does anybody else leave clinical thinking they did something wrong and obssess over it? I'm extremely paranoid about air in my prefilled syringe to flush peripheral IV lines (I'm not allowed to do central lines yet). I know that i need to push the air out and I do but, after I left clinical the other day I thought 'did I push the air out of my IV flush syringe?' Now I'm at the point that I'm freaking out about it....

Does anyone know how much air is too much air when pushing an IV peripheral flush? I would think that that air was no more than 1cc? I leave clinical freaking myself out. It's kind of like "did I forget to turn off my curling iron" and I just freak myself out thinking my house is going to burn down...I'm beginning to think nursing isn't for me bc of my obsessive thoughts drive me crazy...I don't want to seriously hurt anybody!! Ugh....

[nyrn5125]

for the prefilled flushes I slightly loosen the white cap point up and flush out the air with the cap still on. also it would take a good amount of air to harm the pt. But be careful with micro bubbles. If a pt has a Patent Foramen Ovale you need to flush slowly and make sure there is no air

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

If that happens again, psu, you can let the patient know that the combination of gravity and fuel dynamics mean air won't proceed further than 2/3 of the way down the tubing, so she's safe :)

That is what I told her, though in a less scientific way

[talaxandra]

Or fluid dynamics, even