RRT_RN_PMEDIC

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1. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   RRT_RN_PMEDIC replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   NurseRivera, I used them in a med/surg setting. Mostly, but not always, when the patient was at the point of comfort care or had become a hospice patient when they are getting frequent morphine,...

2. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   RRT_RN_PMEDIC replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   Carolmaccas66, please read what I wrote again, and you have to understand that a subq disc is NOT an intravenous line. It's not a "push and flush" device. You don't flush saline into subcutaneous...

3. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   RRT_RN_PMEDIC replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   After reading some of this discussion I think that people are having a difficult time distinguishing between a subq disc that some people may refer to as a "port", that is APPLIED to the skin over...