Confused about Carpuject???

[newexcitednurse]

So why are Carpujects used? Is it to help control drug diversion? Is it somehow safer? I am so confused about the purpose of them because it doesnt change the way you administer the med. If its ordered for IV push then you push it...ect. I have google it but no answers...

[Catzilla]

At a hospital I worked for, Carpujects were single patient use. No hoarding, no bedazzling. We had to label those suckers and toss them when the patient was discharged.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

I've used both the Tubex and Carpuject systems. Once you get the hang of it, they're pretty darned fast... I've got a couple of carpuject holders around and they're quite handy when you need one. I do like the flexibility you have with the carpuject system. Somewhere I think I might still have a tubex holder, but those pretty much went the way of the dinosaur a long time ago. I don't recall having anything other than an attached needle with the tubex system and there being less flexibility.

Long live carpuject!

[Katniss88]

Well, you learn something new everyday. I had no idea what a carpuject was, so I looked it up. So that's why morphine comes in those skinny vials. The first time I gave morphine was during my preceptorship in nursing school. I thought you were supposed to inject air into the vial, so I blew the end off the vial and was terrified. I thought to myself, please let the morphine still be in there and thankfully it was. Whenever I give morphine or dilaudid I use a syringe to draw it up and then draw up 2 ml of saline to dilute it, that's how I was taught in school.

[Farawyn]

I'm old school. Love my Carpuject.

[AnnieOaklyRN, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

Some goofballs decorate their carpujects. Oh well.

Big difference between decorating a carpuject and pulling one out of a Sharps box full of blood and dirty needles, I am not sure I see the relation you are trying to make?! (I am not sure why anyone would think my point and this point are even related), and then using it on another patient, there are far to many crevices etc to thoroughly clean that and why would you risk your health or your patients' when you can use alternative means or, hey here is an idea, call the pharmacy for a new CLEAN one!!

HPRN

[ArtClassRN, ADN, RN]

I am not sure I see the relation you are trying to make?!

I was referring to how some people get unreasonably attached to carpujects, in particular ones they decorate.

I called these people "goofballs" because they do goofball things like pull carpujects out of a sharps container - and bedazzle their carpujects. Now, before you ask, I am not directly relating bedazzling carpujects - or anything else - to pulling anything out of a sharps container. As you have pointed out repeatedly, that is a really bad thing to do.

I'm sorry I did not spell this out to your satisfaction in my previous short post. Please direct any further inquiries to HR and have a nice day.

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

I think your focusing on this far too hard. Its just a method to push the medication. Many meds are packaged different ways. Once you get the hang of them they can be faster than just drawing the med up in a syringe and save supplies because the carpujet can be used multiple times.

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

I was referring to how some people get unreasonably attached to carpujects, in particular ones they decorate.

I called these people "goofballs" because they do goofball things like pull carpujects out of a sharps container - and bedazzle their carpujects. Now, before you ask, I am not directly relating bedazzling carpujects - or anything else - to pulling anything out of a sharps container. As you have pointed out repeatedly, that is a really bad thing to do.

I'm sorry I did not spell this out to your satisfaction in my previous short post. Please direct any further inquiries to HR and have a nice day.

i laughed so hard at this. Bedazzling a carpujet....must have been a slow day. I can only imagine what happened to the tongue depressors.

[Stella F.]

I can’t be the only nurse who doesn’t use a carpuject...but doesn’t pull it up with a syringe either. I have been a nurse since 2008 and have been in l/d, trauma ICU, CTS, and cardiology...I have always used the green cap as the “plunger”. Its green cap equals the amount of air behind the medication. So the green cap pushes the air that pushed the medication. I am disbelief that I can’t find anyone else on the internet that realizes this...