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Originally posted by researchrabbitI'd offer my arm if you were close (got veins you could drive a truck through). I practiced on everyone I knew, I figure I have a huge karmic debt to pay off...
OK...this may sound REALLY stupid...but what do you mean by you "practiced on everyone you knew"? Did they actually give you stuff to take home?...I didn't think that was possible 'cause of the hazards? Just curious...
Originally posted by MollyMoMy first venipuncture was on a comatose patient who decided to wake up and swing at me when I stuck him with the needle.
I am not kidding!!! He came out of his coma and took a swing at me. His father and sister had to hold him down.
You cured him!!!! LOL!!!!!!!:roll
I was lucky first stick was just like the dummy arm. The guy came in ER overdosed half out of it, damn thing looked and felt just like the one at school. I got the first few I tried then had a terrible dry streak but with practice, they get easy. I did my 200 hours for Sr practicum in the ER had 10-15 sticks a day pretty much everyday it is all about confidence. Just keep sticking and if you miss the first one do not give up get a new cath and make the stick. One of my med surg teachers hated when students would miss and then step back. You can go ahead and try again (after 2 misses maybe you should let someone else get in) but you get the point.
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Today was the first day I tried inserting an IV. The nurse educator took us to the ER since we would have more there than the floor. Well well, boy is it drastically different from those dummy arms. The first victim I had was a 93 yo womem with one vein that I could work with. Well you can pretty much guess what happen. Of course it was unsuccessful. The second was an 96 yo women that was severely dehydrated. Her veins wouldn't even pop up a bit. While the other nurses got patients in their 20's. I just wished I could of gotten one IV inserted today. I felt so imcompetent.
Care to share your first venipuncture story....
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