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I am a LPN and want to pick up IV certification I would like to buy a training kit to use at home, any recommendations? So far I am looking at the two items below, does anyone know anything about them, and does the practice kit have all that I would need. I really would appreciate any insight before I start or even if I should do this. Phlebotomy Training Course & Venipuncture Practice Kit by The Apprentice Doctor $69.00 IV Therapy Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide (Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guides) by Lynn D. Phillips MSN RN

In the case of abdominal distention and foley cath insertion how much urine can safely be pulled from the patient initially?

I work in a nursing home and always have more that can be done, I have heard it said that one can I take a blood pressure without a machine or cuff? it that true.

I live in Florida and just finished the course in 12/2012 at a Florida school, however I live closer to the testing center that is in the state of Alabama. Some recently licensed nurses and some students I know have told me if I take the test in Alabama I might get questions based on being a nurse in Alabama and may missed those questions. Is this true? Is it safe to take the test in another state and pass? Could nursing law be different from one state to another? I'm confused please help.