newnurse111

Hi everyone, I'm a new community nurse, and I have a doctor's order to irrigate a drain with 10cc NS. Now, I believe that flushing, is it just flush the drain and leave the NS in, and cap the drain..... and irrigating is to flush the drain, then wit...

Hi, It's an abdominal drain, that is draining ++ ascites... it's to straight drainage. So today, I just flushed it with 10 cc NS, and withdrew the fluid back into the syringe. I'm not sure if I should have left the NS in there, or if in fact, I did ...