Arterial line insertion by the RN

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Any of you starting your own artlines? At my current facility this is under the realm of respiratory. Have had too many bad experiences for some reason and I want to get my hospital to get the P&P started with an instructional program for the ICU RNs.

Any of you starting your own artlines? At my current facility this is under the realm of respiratory. Have had too many bad experiences for some reason and I want to get my hospital to get the P&P started with an instructional program for the ICU RNs.

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What kind of problems?

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Specializes in icu/er.

we can insert them here only after you attend a 8 hr work shop/inservice of "icu skills". once you get signed off on it you have to do atleast 1 under supervision of the icu doc or anesthersia, after that if you get a order for a-line by all accounts you can attempt placement. when i was new, i'd do them every chance i'd get, heck i'd do others nurses lines. but now i'm older and it's lost it's appeal to me so i tell everyone that i've let my skill certification lapse. and yes they can be messy and difficult, but if you keep your head and make for certain there is adequate circulation thiings will turn out ok, for the most part that is.....

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Specializes in CRITICAL CARE.

in my facility a-line insertion done by doctors most of times. rn can insert a-line with doctors consent.

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