IV Therapy skills taught in school?

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Hello fellow nurses,

I am taking a general poll to find out who had an IV therapy class IN nursing school? Did you practice on each other? What year was this? Which state or country? If you didn't have an IV therapy class (where you got to pracitce IV's) do you had? If you didn't practice on each other, do you wish you had?

This is for my final project in the Masters program....

Thanks in advance who take time out of their lives to patrol and answer the questions,

Amanda W. RN CRNI :nurse:

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We covered IVs but didn't have a class, per se.

We did practice on each other and on patients.

I'm glad we did because at least I had *some* idea of what I was doing when I started working (suck at it though I did).

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i am taking a general poll to find out who had an iv therapy class in nursing school? no separate class. everything was covered in clinical and practice in the lab.

did you practice on each other? "practice"? as in insert and start the iv? no. we inserted and started the iv on a practice dummy or practice dummy arm during class in the nursing lab.

what year was this? 2009 which state or country? calif

if you didn't have an iv therapy class (where you got to pracitce iv's) do you had? on the floor with live pts. some of my class went to the ed and had an opportunity to practice there. i never got the opportunity because i never went to the ed and on the floor all pts had iv and/hep locks.

if you didn't practice on each other, do you wish you had? yes, but i doubt that such a program would exist because of the liability issue (will the institution's carrier allow such a program?). to date, because i do not work in an area that gives me an opportunity to start ivs, i am not that proficient.

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Reading he previous post, I realize that I was incomplete in my answer. I was at a California public university in 2009 when we were practicing on each other.

After our initial introduction to IVs (and two sticks on classmates), we would stick each other after clinicals for about a month or so.

I didn't become any good at it until I started working in the ED where I do it numerous times per shift.

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We didn't have a separate IV class. We initially learned IV therapy in Med-Surg I (3 level program with two trimesters per level; Med-Surg I was second level, first trimester). We were able to perform the skill on patients after that. We had arms to practice on in the lab but never on each other. We had plenty of opportunities in clinicals to practice, so I really don't wish we had been able to practice on each other. Also, before we graduated, we had another IV lab day as a refresher before preceptor.

This was 2010-2011 in Mississippi. Hope this helped!

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Reading he previous post I realize that I was incomplete in my answer. [b']I was at a California public university in 2009[/b] when we were practicing on each other.

After our initial introduction to IVs (and two sticks on classmates), we would stick each other after clinicals for about a month or so.

I didn't become any good at it until I started working in the ED where I do it numerous times per shift.

CSU Los Angeles there were no live sticks.

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

You're doing human subjects research as part of your master's project and you don't have IRB approval? What school do you go to?

Also, this thread is misplaced - it should properly be in the Academic Nursing Research Participation Requests board under the Students tab.

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I'm glad that my first sticks were on classmates rather than on patients. It was certainly a lower stress way to start.

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Specializes in SN, LTC, REHAB, HH.
Hello fellow nurses,

I am taking a general poll to find out who had an IV therapy class IN nursing school? Did you practice on each other? What year was this? Which state or country? If you didn't have an IV therapy class (where you got to pracitce IV's) do you had? If you didn't practice on each other, do you wish you had?

This is for my final project in the Masters program....

Thanks in advance who take time out of their lives to patrol and answer the questions,

Amanda W. RN CRNI :nurse:

We had an IV therapy class. it was dumb and didnt really learn as much as i would have liked to. didnt get the chance to practice on each other just an arm full of some red junk is all we had. in clinicals some of us were able to get the experience to start an iv, but really it wasnt enough. i would've liked to get my iv certification from one of the local pharmacies here that offers it.

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no i am not doing human subject's research...i am asking a question to the public to obtain some relevant background information for my project, which is to develop an iv therapy curriculum.

i would move the post but i don't know how, since i have been a member of allnurses for approx. 4 days now. also, i decided to place it where i did to get the most traffic and therefore answers to my questions; and because every nurse has an iv history/story to tell. don't see too much traffic in the academic research section!

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Where is here? Haven't heard of pharmacies providing IV therapy training..

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Specializes in SN, LTC, REHAB, HH.
Where is here? Haven't heard of pharmacies providing IV therapy training..

Interlock pharmacy offers an IV therapy class not walgreens or anything like that. sorry for the wording suggesting otherwise. btw i'm in the great show me state of missouri :).

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