sn0594

I agree with you! In the nursing school through this hospital we don't even learn how to insert an IV! I'm going to feel extremely embarrassed if I decide to work at a different hospital upon graduation, not knowing how to do that skill.

At the hospital Im at RN's do not insert IV's, we have an IV team. I'm just trying to think about this in a roundabout way for purposes of the exam because they wouldn't give a choice to "call someone else to start a new line". If the cont med infusion is running and you need to give a stat IV push can you temporarily turn off the pump, unhook the tubing, flush, give the med, flush again, and rehook the cont med or would that be unacceptable?

I'm a student studying for an IV exam I have coming up and I have this question.. According to my instructors notes which I am typing verbatim you may never administer IV push meds when a continuous medication infusion or TPN is running (even if compatible or addressing incompatibility). Also, continuous infusions of meds should never be d/c. So my question is, what do you do if there is a continuous med infusion running in the only avail line and a stat IV push med is ordered?