mnt0121

I currently work at an extended care facility and I was recently interview for Home Health. However it will be a pay cut for me is it worth taking the pay cut or should I stay where I'm at. I'm not real familiar with Home Health are there any Home Health nurses out there that think its worth the pay cut?

No I didn't because LPN's are not allowed to do flushes in our facility. I was unable to find an RN so an LPN told me to just do it that she does it all the time. So I did than I paniked because someone was walking through the door and I thought I was going to get caught and I accidentally stuck myself. So i didn't report it because I thought it might cost me my job. I did however run it under hot water and make it bleed

No I didn't I was so embarrassed that I did what happen was LPNs are not allowed to flush PICC line where I worked but I searched all over the building for a RN and had no luck well I didn't want to get behind and so I new how to flush it just as I had learned in School. Another LPN told me to just do it she does it all the time when she can't find an RN so I went to do and just about that time I heard someone walking through the door and I didn't want them to catch me doing something I wasn't suppose to be doing so I pulled the needle out quickly and it stuck into my left hand. I ran to the sink and kept making it bleed and ran it under hot water. But I didn't report it, I was afraid it would cost me my job!

What is the risk for getting Hep. C after flushing a double lumen PICC line through the line that blood is not drawn through and accidentally sticking yourself with the needle you flush the PICC line with. The res. tested positive for HCV and MRSA. Wouldn't it be more likely to get MRSA? Your flushing the tube so I wouldn't think there would be much blood on the needle. RIGHT?

I'm a new nurse and the other day I thought to take it upon myself to try and flush a double lumen PICC line. I attached the large bore needle onto the syringe to draw up my saline. Went into the residents room forgot to remove the needle before flushing the PICC line. I flushed the Picc line with the needle and withdrew it rapidly sticking my hand. The problem is the resident tested positive for Hep. C months earlier. Is it possible that the disease could have been transmitted to me just by flushing a picc line with Saline? I wouldn't think so but you never realize how paranoid you become until you accidentally stick yourself.