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I started my first IV last night

One of the patient's central lines pulled out and the surgeon couldn't come replace it right away. So...I finally got to start an IV.

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Good for you! We don't learn this in nursing school, and I can't decide whether I'm looking forward to it, or dreading it. Both, I think! My preceptorship is in the NICU and for sure I don't think I can start IVs in there - can you imagine those tiny tiny veins?

Congrats! :)

May it be the first of many hundreds of successful IV starts to come :D

cheers,

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Congrats! :)

May it be the first of many hundreds of successful IV starts to come :D

cheers,

Lol, probably not, if it took me 9 months to have my first need to start one ;)

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Good for you! We don't learn this in nursing school, and I can't decide whether I'm looking forward to it, or dreading it. Both, I think! My preceptorship is in the NICU and for sure I don't think I can start IVs in there - can you imagine those tiny tiny veins?

You may be like me and never get to start them. I didn't get to do them in school and have no real need to at work.

Good job!

congrats!!!:yeah:

Good for you! We don't learn this in nursing school, and I can't decide whether I'm looking forward to it, or dreading it. Both, I think! My preceptorship is in the NICU and for sure I don't think I can start IVs in there - can you imagine those tiny tiny veins?

Why don't you learn an essential nursing skill in nursing school? :(

Why don't you learn an essential nursing skill in nursing school? :(

Some schools leave it to the facility to teach this once orientation begins (don't know if it is school or hospital policy).

WTG on the line!

Lol, probably not, if it took me 9 months to have my first need to start one ;)

Hey, at least now you won't be caught ala "deer in the headlights" when you have to start an IV on some one in the future :)

'Never discount experience' :D

cheers,

I have started 2 ivs in my job so far congratulations on your first successful IV

Congrats, it will only get easier from here! Well, most of the time anyway, but the first time is always the worst! :D

Congratulations!!! :yeah:

Starting my first IV was a blissful experience. Literally...:D

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