need help remembering mnemonic for IV needles

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Hope someone is able to help me. I read a mnemonic for IV needles that help with which color matches with gauge. I wrote it down but now that I need it, I can't find it. This is what I remember kinda...lol

"green" with envy=larger needle 18 gauge

"true blue"=22 gauge

"if your chicken"=yellow 24 gauge

any help would be appreciated

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Specializes in NICU.

Do you have to memorize them? I just read the labels.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. :o

DeLySh

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Same here.

Do you have to memorize them? I just read the labels.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. :o

DeLySh

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I promise you after a little while of starting or using IVs, it'll be second nature. Make a point of looking at all your patients sites (you should be doing this anyway), noting the colour and then thinking of the number. Don't worry, it'll come.

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Specializes in ICU/ER.

Dont worry after exposure you will just know, it is true! Cranial nerves now that needs an acronym!

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Specializes in Neuro.

I always just remember Green Eighteen (they rhyme) and Blue Twenty-Two. And pink's in the middle (20).

I haven't really had to deal with other sizes much.

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Dont worry after exposure you will just know, it is true! Cranial nerves now that needs an acronym!

Olfactory=Oh

Optic=Oh

Oculomotor=Oh

Trochlear=To

Trigeminal=Touch

Abducens=And

Facial=Feel

Vestibulocochlear=Very

Glossopharyngeal=Good

Vagus=Velvet

Accessory=A

Hypoglossal=H!

Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel very good velvet AH!

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

Our Old Ox Tied To A Fence Ate Green Vegetables And Hay

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i just think football. just picture the quaterback......green 18, blue 22...hike!! the other ones are easier to remember with 2 already memorized.

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thank you all...I love the rhyme and the football mnemonic....

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Our Old Ox Tied To A Fence Ate Green Vegetables And Hay

Forgive me, and I won't type it here, but I know a "dirty" (well, at least anatomically correct!) one that is SOOOO easy to remember!

Why is it that the DIRTY ones are so memorable? I guess I answered my own question, didn't I really?!

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.
Forgive me, and I won't type it here, but I know a "dirty" (well, at least anatomically correct!) one that is SOOOO easy to remember!

Why is it that the DIRTY ones are so memorable? I guess I answered my own question, didn't I really?!

Yes, me too....I know of a couple of ones...but I'm afraid I'll be banned from the board.

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