IV related frustration

[treeye]

I was sent to ER to practice IV today and I can't get any in. I did put three IV in on first try during nursing school which was five months ago. I just don't have any luck today.

What frustrates me more is that a nurse there is so snobbish that she treats the nurse anesthetist student like God but was so rude to me. I understand that I am a LPN who is probably not good at IV, but I spent hours helping priming the tubing that I need at least some appreciation. Is it true that in the society some people display their respect to people according to salary, titles, and positions. No wonder there are so many doctors who are disrespectful to nurses. I will have to remind myself not to become such kind of people.

As frustrated as I was, when I was talking to my honey about it, he put me on hold three times because someone else called his work phone. So I yelled at him and am regretting about it.

Not a good day...thanks for listening.

[Christy1019, ASN, RN]

ok i'm trying to think of a way to respond to this post without being argumentative, so the best i can give you is that there are people with crappy attitudes everywhere you will go, and being that you are an lpn that still makes you a licensed professional nurse, your salary has no bearing or effect on that nurse's life, therefore i highly doubt it influenced her attitude towards you. perhaps the na student was a former coworker or friend of hers that was now going to na school, or perhaps she was just immature and didn't want to be bothered to teach iv skills to someone with less experience. i don't know, but either way it really doesn't matter as long as you focus on your own self and what you are there to do, it doesn't have to be a popularity contest. as for needing appreciation for spending hours on iv tubing.. i don't know what you want to hear but spending any longer than 15min priming tubing, and that is even a long time, is kind of odd.

lastly, do not disrespect the nursing profession with comments such as "

no wonder there are so many doctors who are disrespectful to nurses. i will have to remind myself not to become such kind of people."

nursing is a profession, we are not beneath doctors or any other professionals, nor do we earn good behavior, so do not make such frivolous statements that imply otherwise.

regardless if you are a student, or a 20yr veteran, you are still an adult, if you didn't feel you were getting the assistance you needed, you should've spoken up or perhaps approached a different nurse and asked if she would be able to help you.

[treeye]

thanks for the reply. i really shouldn't be bothered just because of one snobbish nurse's attitude. i am a nurse, i do not by any means belittle the nursing profession. what i want to say is that if nurses can't be respectful to each other (e.g. nurses eat their young), how can they expect to be respected by others including doctors?

fyi, i must have primed 30 iv tubing today, that's why i said i spent hours priming iv tubing.

i have this friday off and i am debating whether i should go up there and practice iv again.

ok i'm trying to think of a way to respond to this post without being argumentative, so the best i can give you is that there are people with crappy attitudes everywhere you will go, and being that you are an lpn that still makes you a licensed professional nurse, your salary has no bearing or effect on that nurse's life, therefore i highly doubt it influenced her attitude towards you. perhaps the na student was a former coworker or friend of hers that was now going to na school, or perhaps she was just immature and didn't want to be bothered to teach iv skills to someone with less experience. i don't know, but either way it really doesn't matter as long as you focus on your own self and what you are there to do, it doesn't have to be a popularity contest. as for needing appreciation for spending hours on iv tubing.. i don't know what you want to hear but spending any longer than 15min priming tubing, and that is even a long time, is kind of odd.

lastly, do not disrespect the nursing profession with comments such as "

no wonder there are so many doctors who are disrespectful to nurses. i will have to remind myself not to become such kind of people."

nursing is a profession, we are not beneath doctors or any other professionals, nor do we earn good behavior, so do not make such frivolous statements that imply otherwise.

regardless if you are a student, or a 20yr veteran, you are still an adult, if you didn't feel you were getting the assistance you needed, you should've spoken up or perhaps approached a different nurse and asked if she would be able to help you.

[MoopleRN]

I'm confused. You're an LPN but you're starting IVs? If you started 3 IVs as a nursing student under supervision that's one thing but if you're working as an LPN then I don't understand why IVs/priming tubing are even an issue for you. If you are allowed as an LPN to prime tubing for an RN then it still shouldn't take "hours" to prime the tubing even for 30 infusions. In my state, only RNs are able to start/maintain/flush IVs/infuse. Perhaps your SOP is different but still.... "hours" to to prime tubing for 30?!?!? That's very confusing to me....

[morte, LPN, LVN]

I'm confused. You're an LPN but you're starting IVs? If you started 3 IVs as a nursing student under supervision that's one thing but if you're working as an LPN then I don't understand why IVs/priming tubing are even an issue for you. If you are allowed as an LPN to prime tubing for an RN then it still shouldn't take "hours" to prime the tubing even for 30 infusions. In my state, only RNs are able to start/maintain/flush IVs/infuse. Perhaps your SOP is different but still.... "hours" to to prime tubing for 30?!?!? That's very confusing to me....

sigh....she is working in the ED (for IV practice, not pay, I 'm thinking) so she isn't just randomly preparing IV lines.....as needed....