Vascular Access RN

tmv73, I have not once attacked your competence at what you do, or your facility; though it is tempting, I still will not. My facility is not small, is financially stable, and receives third party recognition on a regular basis for excellent patient ...

@ tmv73: Your response would indicate that you did not read my post at all. I know for an absolute fact that the RTs I work with would run circles around me when it comes to excellent respiratory care. It is their specialty, they chose it, they focu...

I've been reading over these "new" comments. Spelling, paragraphs, and grammar do reflect legibilty, which in and of itself is interesting to me. I did learn the fundamentals of ventilator settings and controls in nursing school. However, my firs...

Then I would speak to the hospital administratores. Outpatients are their bread and butter when it comes to lines, though I would partially agree with IVRUS -- although many medications (like Vanco) should run through central lines (PICCs). I usual...

It's not the nurses who are unwilling to step up -- it's the administrators who don't want to pay on call time or for 24 hour service. Unfortunately, it is the nurses who unfairly take the fall.

Can not say more at this time, Asystole RN...I can not identify with any institution or corporation, as doing so may have an ultimate negative affect on patients.

"Considering that RTs are paid less AND can bill for their services we will see them expand their roles into other areas of nursing. Vascular access is simply the vanguard of the movement, the method to test the waters." Asystole RN: This is not corr...

Thank you, Woosha RN, for being brave enough to speak out.

PMFB-RN: This is us too. Except that our Admin won't give us enough staff for nights.

The fact that Lynn and others so readily make it the vascular access nurses fault that all hours aren't covered is generalizing, stereotypical, horse pucky. As I have stated much more than once, many of us have begged to have night coverage, even wo...

Not where I work, thank goodness for our patients.

This is why I invite you to do the research for your state or any other about which you are curious. I know you cannot know anything about me personally from my posts, other than my spelling and syntax. In response to Nietzche's quote--I am hiding ...

This IS practice at the many facilities in AZ where RTs place and maintain lines. The RTs first aspirate every device when they check patency (during routine maintenance or troubleshooting after insertion). They have to, as intravenous medication d...

I continue to be unclear, I suppose. ANy TECHNICIAN with ethics and a brain can learn to do a procedure and over repetition become successful at the procedure itself. Vascular access is more than that -- this is something no administrators recogniz...

I can say no more than I have; I do not wish to reveal details out of concern for institutional privacy and reprisal. What I am warning is that institutions and individuals must check with the professional boards BEFORE "diving in." I invite anyone...

The comments regarding the nursing board response are correct; however, that is AZ. I am not in that state, and I am the ONLY person from my facility who contacted the RT board in my state when rumors about a blanket conversion arose. The RT board ...

Yes, your are missing my point. 1. I have investigated the basic education curriculum for RTs education (in my state). THERE IS nothing close to venous access (even basic), the effects of venous access on the vessel, the effects of infusion therapy...

So, I will tell you why RTs should NOT be placing lines. It is not within their scope of practice. Period. For nay-sayers, here is specifically why: 1. Review their education process -- vascular access for intravenous medications is not part of the c...