Items for practicing injecions

pixiestudent2 · Oct 3, 2015

The first thing I injected was a patient lol I wouldn't bother brutalizing any food..

You probably shouldn't take needles home either.

mrsboots87 · Oct 3, 2015

The first thing I injected was a patient lol I wouldn't bother brutalizing any food..
You probably shouldn't take needles home either.

My program gave us a lab kit that included needles, fake meds, and a foley kit that was meant for practicing at home. It was actually encouraged. And for practicing at school or in lab, we had to bring our stuff with us. OP is probably in a similar program.

OP, honestly the orange and hotdogs are all you really need. The orange is similar in resistance, but nothing will be exactly like a patient. The at home practice is more for getting the steps down and getting a feel for the bottles and syringes.

Leonardsmom,LPN · Oct 3, 2015

My program gave us a lab kit that included needles, fake meds, and a foley kit that was meant for practicing at home. It was actually encouraged. And for practicing at school or in lab, we had to bring our stuff with us. OP is probably in a similar program.
OP, honestly the orange and hotdogs are all you really need. The orange is similar in resistance, but nothing will be exactly like a patient. The at home practice is more for getting the steps down and getting a feel for the bottles and syringes.

Thanks.

Yes my program has us buy a kit with everything in it. We learn our skills from watching videos and expected to practice at home. Before skill check off we have one practice time in the lab for a couple of hours. We are encouraged to practice at home since we do not have any open lab time available for us. We are however told not to stick anyone without our instructor there, inanimate objects are fine, just no people.

mrsboots87 · Oct 4, 2015

Def no people with your practice stuff. One reason being liability and not having an instructor present, but also because the practice stuff may or may not actually be sterile. Since a it's made for practice, there isn't as much quality control with packaging. Also, the liquid vials are usually just water. Wouldn't want to be injecting people with non sterile water lol. I'm sure you know this already though. GL

pixiestudent2 · Oct 4, 2015

Oh, my apologies, I had no idea some schools sent needles home.

rob4546, ADN, BSN, MSN · Oct 4, 2015

My program gave us a lab kit that included needles, fake meds, and a foley kit that was meant for practicing at home. It was actually encouraged. And for practicing at school or in lab, we had to bring our stuff with us. OP is probably in a similar program.
OP, honestly the orange and hotdogs are all you really need. The orange is similar in resistance, but nothing will be exactly like a patient. The at home practice is more for getting the steps down and getting a feel for the bottles and syringes.

Same here. I practiced with an orange enough that it doubled in size. I look back now and think how ridiculous it was for me to do it that many times. Personally I think that doing it 5-10 times on an inanimate object is enough, unless you really have an aversion to needles. Hard to complete a Z-track on an orange.

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

My program gave us a lab kit that included needles, fake meds, and a foley kit that was meant for practicing at home. It was actually encouraged. And for practicing at school or in lab, we had to bring our stuff with us. OP is probably in a similar program.
OP, honestly the orange and hotdogs are all you really need. The orange is similar in resistance, but nothing will be exactly like a patient. The at home practice is more for getting the steps down and getting a feel for the bottles and syringes.

My roommate and I injected our oranges with vodka. Instant screwdriver. ðŸ˜‡

And, pardon me for asking, but just who were you supposed to use the practice Foley kit on?? ðŸ˜±

BiotoBSNtoFNP · Oct 4, 2015

We were also sent home w needles and foley kits to practice the steps/technique. One student was dismissed from the program for practicing with the foley on her husband ðŸ˜³she came to school the next day bragging about how was the first in our class to insert it on a real person.

Although! Thats definitely what I call a supportive husband!

applesxoranges, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

We were also sent home w needles and foley kits to practice the steps/technique. One student was dismissed from the program for practicing with the foley on her husband ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½she came to school the next day bragging about how was the first in our class to insert it on a real person.
Although! Thats definitely what I call a supportive husband!

Wow. I jokingly told a friend that we were going to practice on him (he was a volunteer for physical assessment only). He asked an instructor if they put foleys in real people. I was like "omg, I'm dead." She laughed about it.

nohlsson1 · Oct 4, 2015

My school won't let us take the needles home or travel with them. Here in Florida it can easily be considered drug paraphernalia and they don't want to take the chances of the school being liable. We used hot dogs during our lab and unfortunately it smelled horrid in their for a couple days after. Listen to the instructors and practice, practice, practice!

NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

My program gave us a lab kit that included needles, fake meds, and a foley kit that was meant for practicing at home. It was actually encouraged. And for practicing at school or in lab, we had to bring our stuff with us. OP is probably in a similar program.
OP, honestly the orange and hotdogs are all you really need. The orange is similar in resistance, but nothing will be exactly like a patient. The at home practice is more for getting the steps down and getting a feel for the bottles and syringes.

This brought back a memory from when I was in nursing school. We had these items plus a bunch of enemas, tubes, etc to transfer to and from the school in our personal vehicle. The came in a clear bag where everything was identifiable from the outside. I went to the airport to pick up my boyfriend shortly after 9-11 and at the time security was checking out the luggage and trunks and of course I forgot to stop at home after school to empty my goodies. I popped the trunk, they rummaged through my stuff for a few seconds and one asks from the trunk, "you a nurse?". "Student," I replied...."Yeah, man this stuff is okay". They then let me threw to park my car in the short term parking garage. I can only imagine what they were thinking going through needles, oranges, tap water enema bags, saline, and foley catheter kits.