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My point exactly, this is not just daily duties we are talking about... once again only 2 out of around 300-400 nurses in our hospital can do this. That to me sounds certified, and of course we are both certified to do this. My 1st ? was... We are starting this Vascular Access team and we need incentive for nurses to join, I love it, but I am a radiology nurse and have many other duties, so starting a picc gets put on the back burner until I can get to it. If you offered $$$ then we could build this team and then our problem would be solved.

I know this is old but here we give PO Metoprolol 50 mg at hs the night before and 50 mg 1 hr before the study. That wokrs great (hr ususally 50's) the ordering MD orders the meds. I have never had to use more that 15 mg of iv metoprolol. normally I do not have to give anything, except the nitro.

I think,that if icu, ed & other specialty nurses get special pay why wouldn't a handful (5) of nurses that CAN insert piccs get some specialty pay??? I mean out of 300-400 nurses that work here only 2 can do it... that's less than 1% seems pretty special.

We have started a new picc line team at our 260+ bed hospital and there are only 2 of us at this time, we do not get any incentive pay/diff/bonus so we are having problems keeping people interested in the team. Any suggestions of what we should ask for from administration (compensation wise) to keep nurses happy????