Am I the only one that's done this?

[Trama_junky]

Has anyone else attempted to perform a blood draw or IV on themselves for practice? I'm asking for a friend

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

I started my own IV when I was hospitalized. They had tried 4 times without success and I said, Please just let me do it". Unfortunately my left arm was pretty abused at that point so I had to start it left handed and had to use the posterior aspect of my forearm and I just ed used a 22 gauge. I just had them tape it but I remember saying, Please don't lose it.

[Asystole RN]

I would start IVs on myself all the time. It is the best way IMO to feel what the patient feels while feeling the catheter from the nurse's POV at the same time.

I had several hemochromatosis that would routinely start their own IVs at home to bleed themselves. One guy would walk around his garden squirting blood all over. Swore that it was great fertilizer.

[MunoRN, RN]

I would start IVs on myself all the time. It is the best way IMO to feel what the patient feels while feeling the catheter from the nurse's POV at the same time.

I had several hemochromatosis that would routinely start their own IVs at home to bleed themselves. One guy would walk around his garden squirting blood all over. Swore that it was great fertilizer.

Fertilizers sold as "Organic" are often primarily blood meal; dried blood collected during meat processing. I had a woman once who usually did her own therapeutic phlebotomy at home, when she needed it done as an inpatient she was upset that we wouldn't let her keep what we had drained off since she claimed it's what made her tomatoes so good.

[jj224]

Pretty cool self intubation!