Madam PICC

Madam PICC

PICC nurse for 6 years

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  1. IV therapy-any good guessers here?

    Chvostek's is the most correct in the absence of the Trousseau sgn. Good luck on
  2. We have been utilizing the longer PIV when we use ultrasound for our difficult acces patients for CT and MRI for about a year at least. One of the CT technologist has said that we should not be using...
  3. INS Guidelines

    The INS has now offered the new standards of practice for the e readers. The Barnes and nobles has a free app for computer and the cost the of the guidelines is only 15.00 instead of the book format...
  4. There is also a class offered at the AVA conference one of the breakout sessions she was very helpful when I made our policy and procedure, we made it very specific for the
  5. Ultrasound for Peripheral IV's

    I have been using the ultrasound to place PIV for about 6 years now. I starting when I was evaluating ultrasound that were going to be used for PICC placement which I had not gone to the training...
  6. Hello, I am a PICC nurse with 6 years of experience in placing PICC lines. I do not currently place a PICC line if a pacemaker; ie new wires, has just been placed. I was informed this several years...
  7. Ultrasoudn Guided Peripheral IV

    Hey Craig the first time I read your thread I also thought that you had place a PIV in the patient Brachial but when I read it again I saw it was a PICC. I think for PIV placement brachial vein should...
  8. Ultrasoudn Guided Peripheral IV

    That would be great I would be interested in seeing that article please let me know where to find it so i can use it for our policy.
  9. Ultrasoudn Guided Peripheral IV

    Thanks, I know. I will be training a few experienced nurses on each trauma floor to use the ultrasound that they currently have on their units and then they will be the ones to use the skill not teach...
  10. Seminars for Infusion Skills?

    You might try your Hospital education they might host one. There is also perivascular that has classes at different locations. If your hospital has an IV team you might go with them for a day or two...
  11. Ultrasoudn Guided Peripheral IV

    I am also working on a program to teach a select few on US PIV placement. I would like to know how is yours going. I was going to use the main problems associated with PIV placement. I am also going...
  12. Phlebotomy thru port?

    Lynn Hadaway spoke about this in her
  13. Data Collection

    Hello, Anyone doing data collection for PICC insertions. Question? When a PICC is placed at the bedside and the nurse has to go back to retract R/T length adjustment does this count as successful...
  14. Can you guys help me with this?

    There are a few problems going on withthis patient. First the patient had a CVA with affected R sided weakeness. The IV should not have been placed in the R arm because of lymphedema complications....
  15. Hey sounds like you've been busy. If it's experience you wish in PICC's there are jobs open for PICC/IV therapy team in maryland at Good samaritan hospital. check it out. Good
  16. I think the class is definitly think the class is in your best interest, along with learning from another coworker. The class would give the formal education involved with placing IV's and the...
  17. What you are talking about is a PICC stick and run team. there are several articles on this subject and the increase effectiveness of an actual PICC team. Right now I work for a university hospital in...