kitty13

Good technique! Yes always follow your hospital P&P but as Aurora77 said that 100ml bag is cheap, it delivers the rest of the antibiotic in the iv line to your patient so they get all the med. Even for intermittent this is best nursing practice and it clears your tubing of any residual med incase you are re-using tubing.

Please don't classify yourself as a loser, I am an experienced nurse and have had my 4th interview, still can't get a job, i am either told i am overqualified, not up to speed for an injection nurse job (HA HA) yep someone told me this, need BSN, not in hospital recently, want you on team but one other person does not. the list goes on. You are not alone! Hang in there. Have you looked at LTC facilities? Or agency work?

bravo, Bravo. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take a look at the ANCC website and them tell me what you think may be influencing healthcare. Also review magnet hospitals and what it will do for patient care out comes, then tell me your thoughts. I was amazed and enlightened

good for you it was a well written reply my feelings as a Diploma RN

That would depend on your work setting, is it a magnet hospital, is there a trauma center level associated with the hospital. However those degrees could work for an RN if you wanted to work for as an educator at some same colleges, as well as a Clinical Device consultant.

The comments regarding degrees and hospitals requiring BSN is the direction many facilities have been moving over the last couple of years. I am a diploma nurse, graduated from a 3 yr program that allowed nothing but an 80% test score averages. We worked just like staff in the hospitals during our training. I could not afford to continue my education after graduation to the BSN level. My friends in the four year program may have a BSN but they admit when they worked at the same hospital the year they graduated they were far behind the skills of those of us from the Diploma program. I am searching for a job now and i am finding nothing!

Mama_d, the space pump you refer to does have the option of having 3 port tubing. It is a choice made by your hospital what to order. We have 3 port tubing. I don't have issues with a glass vial, but i also close the vent when i hang a new bottle, then reopen it. We have no problems with air except when the patient comes from ED or the CVOR who do not prime the line correct.

We use the Space pump and as another post said " careful priming is required" We also started priming each port w saline prior to the prime of the entire set. We reduced alarms at least 90%. We use with glass bottles and one of the reps taught us tricks to decrease bubbling. Blood no problem, just prime both sides of the y set with saline. This small pump fits right below our monitors. Nice way to eyeball the screens from one side. The Baxter pump was familiar and we used it a long time but get over it those things were recalled many yrs ago. Whatever change is a constant.