Floor paediatric nurses, do you site IVs at all?

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I work in ED and I'm considering returning to Paediatrics. In NZ and Australia floor nurses never put IVs in children, so I was wondering if US nurses do? This question is for floor nurses, I know that ED nurses put IV lines in because I am doing it.

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Specializes in PNP, CDE, Integrative Pain Management.

At our children's hospital, the floor nurses put in all the IVs.

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.

At my hospital, we have an IV team that puts IV's, but we are expected to look for veins and try to stick (if possible) before calling them. They are to be used for the more difficult sticks.

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Specializes in Neonatal nursing (paediatric trained).

When I lived in the US, the floor nurses put the IVs in.

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Specializes in Geriatric, Prenatal, Q.I./Education.

On my pediatric/ short admission unit...we do put in I.V.'s. In the perfect world the pediatric patient would always arrive from the ED with an intact and functioning IV. The majority of the time they do, just got to set them up on our pumps quickly so they do not clot off. On occasion a "stable" child will become "unstable" on that elevator ride up to the unit and we find that they do not have an IV at all. BAD Elevator!

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