New grad here. When your patient is on continuous IV fluids and the antibiotic you need to give is incompatible or not tested with the fluids, do you usually suspend the fluids to run the antibiotic, or do you start a second IV line so the patient can get both simultaneously?
Last night I capped the fluids, flushed, ran the antibiotic, flushed, then restarted the fluids. I used the same pump, just reprogrammed it each time. I also changed the sticker on the tubing so it would be changed daily rather than every 4 days. But being that the patient was on "continuous" fluids, I'm now wondering if I should have started a second IV line. I'm also wondering if I should have used separate pumps even though they weren't running at the same time.