A couple of weeks ago I went to this hospital for my IVT completion and I was wondering why the staff nurses there won't let us touch their patients...I meant figuratively. They just gave us the cases and only a few of the staff allowed me to join them and carry out the medication orders (IV push, aspirating meds from vials etc. --the very basic ones). I didnt even have the chance to do IV insertion eventhough they knew I was there 'to learn'.
I didn't know if it's a usual procedure for us to just observe the staff doing their IV's and stuff.... Maybe I wasn't assertive enough to tell them or ask them , 'Would you allow me to do it?'. It's obvious they were very busy.
What's the use of getting a completion if we cant have the chance to validate our skills.
After I was given my IVT cases, I wonder....maybe these nurses learned their craft /got used to doing all these nursing procedures when they were hired/when they were given patient assignments/ ..maybe then they felt really accountable for their patients such that they would hardly let their patients be handled by practicumers ...
I am on my completion of cases.. but sad to say, the hospital where I'm doing my completion is just a secondary hospital and only have few patients.. No BT cases and it been two months since our training.. Do you guys know hospitals where I can complete my cases? Thanks...
@ kenjin, You try public tertiary hospitals around the Metro, I know someone who had her completion at Fabella. I had my completion outside the Metro but it is all worth it, Bulacan Medical Center that is.
@ lochia alba, I think hospitals offering IVT training are as much as possible the same with how the training works. With my experience (not in LCP though):
1st day: Pre quiz and lectures mostly about the handbook.
2nd day: Lectures and Demos of the procedures and Post quiz.
@ Official02:In return demonstration, are we going to use dummy or we need a partner to do iv insertion??? Sorry for too much questions but i really have few ideas regardng this. =)
from what I know, you'll be doing that with your partner and not just a dummy. It's good way so that we'll know what our patients feel when being inserted with an IV line.
during the return demonstration, trainees need to complete five procedures, namely: iv insertion, blood transfusion, iv medications, total parenteral nutrition, one on one insertion. there are stations where you'll meet preceptors who will grade your demonstrations in front of them.
procedure i is done with a dummy arm. it is also divided into four sub-procedures: preparation, insertion, changing, removing. while you are doing the procedure with the preceptor in front of you, you also need to say something about each and every step.
procedure ii is done with bt equipments
procedure iii is also divided into four sub-procedures: iv incorporation, iv push, heparin, volumetric chamber
procedure iv is done with tpn
procedure v is one on one insertion. this is just like the procedure i (sub procedure b: insertion) but not with a dummy arm anymore. there are two trainees involved, one will insert iv needle to the other and vice versa. its just like doing injection return demo during our college days.
there, that's my personal experience. better read and memorize the procedure (step by step) before the day of training, it will help a lot.
sad part: i've been waiting for my iv card for 2 months and 4 days now. upon filing my cases at ansap office, they told me to wait for 2 months it is also written on the small paper they gave. i called them twice, unfortunately, they told me that releasing of iv cards will be delayed and just told me to expect it by january, 3 months of waiting.
Ooooooh what a bad luck, my friends didn't make it to the registration, I do not have a partner. Plus I'm afraid to feel again the pain that I felt when we did the return demonstration for parenteral meds, or might be worst... =(
Hi! I just arrive after I registered at Bulacan Medical Center for their Basic IVT training. I am scheduled on the latest date they have and that is January 15-17, 2009:nmbrn:
@ manudelrosario, That's good. Bulacan Medical Center is a good choice, just be prepared with it. Especially if you are from Metro Manila and you have to travel the expressway to get there. I mean, waking up early and going home very late. They don't start the training at the exact at it usually scheduled, they start it very early and they don't end it at the exact time too, they end it late. Food and other services are good too!
You can also take the completion there. If you have question, just shoot it.
kenjin
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I am on my completion of cases.. but sad to say, the hospital where I'm doing my completion is just a secondary hospital and only have few patients.. No BT cases and it been two months since our training.. Do you guys know hospitals where I can complete my cases? Thanks...