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,
While I have not completed my program yet, IV therapy is taught in two phases. In Semester 2, you learn about managing an IV that's already been instituted. By 4th Semester, you've learned all the basics of managing an IV except for starting the line. In 4th Semester, you're taught how to do the actual IV starts.
I believe that's initially done on an IV mannequin arm. I don't believe that we do live sticks on each other.
Nope no IV teaching and I went to a private supposedly prestigious nursing school and got my BSN. we as students were pretty upset the college would not teach us, or let us practice on each other. They said it was a liability issue. So, after I graduated I had to pay, I dont remember how much ($300 approx) to take an IV Certification Class. The knowledge we gained from our program was top notch, but the clinical aspect of program was below pair. Maybe that is why my college revamped the entire Nursing Program after our class graduated? I have no idea what they do now.
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.
i have checked with my universities irb/human subject's research department, we are all in agreement that this was and is considered a professional inquiry. i would need irb approval if i were "systematically" surveying and/or collecting "raw data" to analyze for my thesis. since none of these things apply, i do not need approval and thus just fine in this particular blog post.
I see it as two separate things - starting the IV, and then the IV fluids/meds themselves. We had two classes in pharm which covered IV meds constantly. Many components in lab where we programmed the pumps, primed the lines, did maintenance. But have not inserted them into each other literally yet. I think we get to practice on dummies at some poin?. We're moving onto central lines this week in lab and I am in my 1st term, 2nd year of an ADN-RN program. They do give us the option to refuse to have students do things to us though - I mean like ID injections as practice. Not everyone wants or needs that though. I would go for it though - I mean with a real IV insertion....Probably a liability thing though?
What I find particularly ironic about this discussion is its contrast with the oft-repeated perception that ADN programs provide so much better clinical training than BSN programs or, gads, ELM/DEMSN programs. Here I am a product of the latter and yet I'm one of the few who was actually given opportunities to practice the skill before being turned loose on patients.
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While I have not completed my program yet, IV therapy is taught in two phases. In Semester 2, you learn about managing an IV that's already been instituted. By 4th Semester, you've learned all the basics of managing an IV except for starting the line. In 4th Semester, you're taught how to do the actual IV starts.
I believe that's initially done on an IV mannequin arm. I don't believe that we do live sticks on each other.