shadow1100

I started in the medical field as a Naval Corpsman, then as an orderly for three years, an LPN for 5 years, and an RN for 26years. My experience has been on a Cardiac Step down unit, Cardiac care unit, Open Heart Surgery Intensive care, Intensive care, Nursing Supervisor, Emergency Room. and now a Clinical Educator. By the way I still can't type. Shadow1100

Does anyone out there have a good program that they would not mind sharing in assessing competency for intravenous sticks if the unit in which the nurse performs does not get many peripheral IVs? By not many I would estimate approximately 1 - 2 per month. Would a return demonstration on a manikin arm suffice for assessing competency for IV insertion? Everyone must agree that performing this on a manikin and performing an IV on a real subject is two different things. What do you think? Shadow 1100:idea:

report no. 102 from shadow1100 registered user age: 56 join date: nov 2009 posts: 1 today, 06:40 pm educational nightmare i am a clinical educator in a small community hospital. the nurse managers on the units wish for me to have a nursing skills day each year. i am finding it very difficult to comply with this request as there is nothing that i can think of that is similiar to each of the nursing units here at the hospital. each unit tell me they have a "skills day" for their staff but they still would like to have a nursing skills day for the hospital. i continually try to tell them that a unit specific skills day is adequate for verifying competency for each particular unit. does anyone have any idea on how i could drive this point home with the nursing managers? if there is anyone that does do a hospital wide nursing skills day what competencies are being verified that each unit does? items such as fire safety, hippa, information security, and medication error reporting are covered by a safety fair we have yearly and by a computerized annual training program. help please!