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Thank you all for your replies

I should clarify my original post.... I asked the question and then with the holidays.. I am just now looking back to it. What I am refering to is... do you use the filtered needle to draw up from a glass ampule even when using the solution from the ampule (... ie demerol) for an IM injection, or do you use a regular needle when giving the injection IM and a filtered needle when giving it IV. Hope that makes this make more sense

I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find information on the use of filtered needles for IM injections. We are just now getting filtered needles at our hospital, and I am just wondering if it is common practice to use a filtered needle for Im injections as well. If so, I would like to be able to present information as to its need for Im injections as well as IV, so if anyone knows off hand where I could find this info I would appreciate it. Thanks

None at our hospital either (I have seen one on the epidural tray).

Thanks... that does help. It is hard to imagine 3 litres of fluid s/c.

Hey there, I am writing the CINA exam in a few weeks and I would like to know if anyone can tell me about hypodermoclysis and venoclysis? I have honestly never heard of them before I started studying and I wonder how common they are. I understand that they deliver isotonic fluids subcutaneously but I wonder.... why? and are there any other purposes for this? Thanks

If I am assigned a pt, I assume that that patient is my responsibility. If I am lucky enough to have an aide assigned to that patient as well, I consider myself lucky, and I thank the aid for anything she may have done for my patient. If a patient needs water, I try to get it, if a bell is ringing I try to answer. I make beds with the aids... start at one end and work our way around. She helps me and I help her. This way when I get stuck doing something that she can't do (like doctor's orders or dealing with a really sick patient etc) she is understanding and she will take on some of my work that she can do. I've worked with a fair amount of lazy aids, bosy aids and know it all aids... but I have also worked with the same amount of bosy, lazy and Know it all RN's. I think that someone earlier said it best... Respect them and the work they do do and you will get it back. An aid is not "less than" an RN they are just doing a different job.

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no hard rule on co signing SQ insulin but when you have another nurse handy we try to and both of us sign mar. same with heparin sq. For drips though a co sign is a must. We mixed our own potassium for years until recently (about a year now). We always needed a co sign on the Potassium.