Disposable IV Canunulation Sets

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Any of your area of practice using the disposable iv cannulation set?? The ultimate objective of the set is of course infection control, time saving in preparing for IV cannulation which each new patient requires. From my understanding from online vendors website, it usually come with alcohol swab, disposable tourniquet, trans parent dressing . I'm thinking of introducing it my area of work . do give me some feedback of the set.

Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Those charges add up, but not quite fairly. An 84 cent urinal costs the patient over $10. A dollar bag of NS is upwards of $22. Those are things that have to be used there's not another option.

If I can save a patient a dollar I will, as I remain convinced that the prepackaged kits are useless.

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Specializes in LDRP.
Those charges add up, but not quite fairly. An 84 cent urinal costs the patient over $10. A dollar bag of NS is upwards of $22.

How do you know this??? I always say that i would LOVE to know how much we charge for these things. Are you saying that hte urinal costs the hospital .84, but the pt pays 10 bucks for a urinal? b/c we don't charge for our urinals.....

(we did get a nice lecture on not giving all pt's water pitchers, urinals, soap, wash basin, etc unless we knew they didn't already have one. b/c we can't charge for those things, and they add up)

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

The charge system we used was barcoded stickers. When you got a supply you would peel the sticker and put it on a card. Central supply would then restock according to what was used. (This was before the pyxis supply cabinets) and we would get a printout of what wasn't charged. The charge nurse then had to find where stuff was used. The printout would show cost and loss. The difference in the 84 cents etc and the lost revenue.

IF you are ever hospitalized you can ask for an itemized bill and all will be revealed.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

"...The charge system we used was barcoded stickers. When you got a supply you would peel the sticker and put it on a card."

We did that--when the card got full, we'd take them to the unit sec'y and say "BINGO!"

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

Sheesh! It was an adjustment when we changed our charge system about 5 years ago, but I really didn't like those stickers!

I'm happy to not have yellow stickers plastered all over my arm anymore. I would sometimes find those yellow things in the strangest places when I got home from work!

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Yep I've been "retired" from there for 6 years. I still come across yellow stickers in old handbags and totes.

I just got an itemized bill from my hospital stay in Feb. For example I take 10 mg amitrip at night for peripheral neuropathy, 1 amitrip was $7. A month's supply at the drugstore is $7. There's a LOT of markup.

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