I am seeing nurses give morphine with a TB syringe. Is there a reason for doing this?? Even though that is a sc needle I would have thought to draw it up in a regular 1ml syringe with a half inch needle? Is this just a nursing preference?? Are they the same essentially?
Concentration is morphine 10mg per 1ml and the prescribed dose is 1 to 3mg every 4 hours PRN Therefore give 0.1ml to 0.3mls SC.
Also....
A nurse was giving insulin in a TB needle too! What?
I won't be doing that one I know. Insulin is in units.
I have seen a few odd practices and so when I see things done differently than I might do it confuses me! Ha!
Last one. When pt is getting heparin or Enoxaparin as well as insulin shots can the sites be intermingled? Or would you be avoiding the tummy area for insulin if it is being used for the lovenox? Does it matter?
I don't need a link. I have been out of insulin syringes. I certainly didn't withhold insulin rather than make do.
BINGO!......yes,I remember when,,,etc........when insulin came in several diff strengths......but that is functionally no longer an issue...... .001 of a ml, is the same, no matter which syringe it is in
The thread you are referring to was from 2003 and the actual question was quite different than what is posted here. The poster wanted help with a scenario on what to do when the insulin syringe breaks and your patient needs 50 units.
you didn't skip to the last post on page four, did you.
Then I'm mystified as to what we're talking about.
From the way the OP posted their original question, I took it as the nurses were using other syringes when insulin syringes were available. If that is the case then I do not agree with it.
I would never intentionally withold any medication unless I could not "safely" give it. Safety is priority!!!
are! Not sure what it means.
geekgolightly, BSN, RN
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Heard of it, but have never seen it.