LACrn

LACrn has 15 years experience and specializes in infusion.

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1. IV piggyback question

   LACrn replied to pmy7741's topic in Patient Medications

   Unless the pump has two different chambers to thread 2 different tubings thru you still have to place the IVPB higher than the primary fluid. The pump can be programmed with 2 rates but gravity still...

2. "Looping" IV Tubing

   LACrn replied to RN CRNI's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

   This really is the only acceptable method to store tubing. The looping method IS "lazy" and 90% of the nurses who do it DO NOT wipe the port with alcohol before storing it in this manner. In our...

3. Elevated INR and RN PICC placement

   LACrn replied to regnifne's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

   Our PICC team also has no cut off. I have placed a picc on a pt whos INR read as >12 with no complications. Of course great care was taken to keep it that

4. On call PICC nurse? Does such a thing exist?

   LACrn replied to KEVIN88GT's topic in General Nursing

   WE actually placed piccs successfully in the basilic vein for many years before we got our ultrasound machine 8 months ago. We place

5. On call PICC nurse? Does such a thing exist?

   LACrn replied to KEVIN88GT's topic in General Nursing

   just wondering. you dont have fluoro but do you utilize a portable ultrasound to assist with vein location?? southern picc

6. Crazy Thing Pts Say or Do

   LACrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

   Indeed these statements are often valid.. The fda requires meds to be chemically the same but they do not dictate that the binding agents be the same. Patients are often sensitive to the binding agent...

7. Doctors that think they are god...

   LACrn replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

   I think that this is the closest answer to the problem presented. The true problem here is Doctors that seem to feel like they are in a contest to keep a patient alive the longest. Ultimately GOD...