ainaya7

This is embarrassing to write about but I'm desperate! I STILL don't feel confident about hanging IVPB's...Unfortunately I feel like I don't even know where to start half the time...this is one of those "skills" that makes you feel like you're ready to be a nurse, and it's not there for me! I feel like I don't understand the most basic concepts, (and can admit I haven't checked my skills book for a refresher!) such as...why choose secondary tubing? why primary tubing? why primary tubing into another primary line (today I had a Hep Drip running primary into an infusaport and I hung K-Dur primary on a 2nd pump - can I connect at any port?? I picked the one closest to the pt. and the nurse seemed ok with it...) Can anyone provide maybe a scenario or a step by step of what we do and how we set up supplies (and why we're picking what we're picking!) when getting an IVPB ready to infuse? (Using a pump to describe instead of gravity would be awesome!) Thank you so much in advance!