need help with tpn/blood/heparin drip admin

[dayshiftnurse]

hi, im an RN and really need a lot of help feeling comfortable administering blood products and TPN. i do agency nursing and so at many facilities ive been able to dodge these skills--they ususally prefer on-staff to administer blood and unless you have been given proper training to the nomograms used, they don't let agency admin the heparin drip and especially not TPN.

i am starting to feel useless everytime i have to ask someone else to hang these things for me...is there any learning tools/dvd's i could watch to refresh my learning in this area? we were only taught theory of TPN and i never was 'exposed' to it in school. the local college in the area, these refresher courses keep getting cancelled due to low enrollment and so i am just stuck wishing i felt more confident and no real way to help myself.

any suggestions? you can pm me too, thanks.

[Thunderwolf, MSN, RN]

Try doing a board search first to see what has been discussed already.

These topics have been discussed. Then post some "specific questions" regarding what else you need to know.

One great thing about this board is that we all can learn from each other.

[hrtprncss]

If you have itunes you can check the podcast keyword ''nursing'' there's a professor there ''maag'' i believe is her name and she has lectures about tpn and blood administration that's downloadable and you can listen to it either on an ipod or just your pc.