How many use needle system IV's still?

Rena RN 2003, RN · Oct 12, 2003

nope, not i.

RNKPCE · Oct 12, 2003

If by LaLa land you mean somewhere in California, then you have places to call such as OSHA and the department of health. I think there was a mandate in California that all hospitals had to use whatever is necessary to make them as needless as possible. This situation would be a real no-no for accreditation for your hospital.

My hospital has all the needleless iv stuff. A few years ago I would occasionally see people using needles to piggyback but not anymore. Our own tubing doesn't have rubber port they have valves instead.

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 12, 2003

been needless for a while now.

all the hospitals around here, if I remember right. Is not NOT a JCAHO requirement? (If you are JACHO-accredited anyhow)

cannoli · Oct 12, 2003

I agree you should report them.

Wasn't it a nurse that got AIDS from a needle stick who was instrumental in getting the needleless system implemented to protect the rest of us?

gizzy76 · Oct 12, 2003

I'm in Alberta, Canada...they tell me at the hospital that there is not enough money in the budget for a needless system yet...but they just got a brand new hospital and many new things in the hospital that may not have been needed, so I'm a bit confused.

I don't like how they've been saline locking pt's and then I have to rehook them up with these needles. They're left attached to the IV pumps. To me that is a huge hazard! What if the pt or a visitor were to stick themselves, let alone me as the nurse?

cannoli · Oct 12, 2003

That is very dangerous. I was stuck once by an 18 gauge needle left on a piggyback, back when we still used needles, as the previous person had put the cover back on the needle but the needle had gone right through the side of the cap, and then right into my finger. It's the people you follow behind sometimes that do really stupid things.

cannoli · Oct 12, 2003

Do you have any regulatory agencies regarding workplace safety in Canada that you can contact?

mattsmom81 · Oct 12, 2003

Who cares about needleless tubing systems ?? Where the real problem is: the IV cannulas and needles for injection! that is where we get stuck and always WILL get stuck!! Cuz patients move, fight, etc.....the retractable stuff helps SOME but the patient is generally the reason nurses get stuck in my experience.

Guess I never really understood all this hoopla with tubing systems going needleless...someone made a million off it though....didn't they?

sharann, BSN, RN · Oct 12, 2003

I often have trouble with "safety" syringes. You know the type, with plastic tubes arount the syringe...I have had more misses and near misses than I care to with those stupid things. These measures don't do any good if we are careless. Oh, and the safe IV caths, with the button you push to retract the needle? Horrible. Half the time they fail to retract. So what good are they?