Chandra Lancaster

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1. How do you pick your vein for an IV?

   Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing

2. How do you pick your vein for an IV?

   Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing

   All the time!!

3. How do you pick your vein for an IV?

   Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing

   I am not understanding where the "tooth brush" vein is, sorry I should probably understand what you are saying but don't quite. Thank you all very much for the input! I do need more practice and often feel people's veins just to try to get a feel for...

4. Do patients

   Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing

   I'm sorry to have made it sound rude, it was just something that I have noticed as a student. Many complaints have been made that nurses who smoke get more breaks than the ones that don't. I think that if there is a complaint about the ones taking mo...

5. Do patients

   Chandra Lancaster posted a topic in General Nursing

   I see nurses smoking quite often. Do you think that patients see this and wonder why we are telling them to quit? Should nurses not be allowed to smoke? I understand that nurses are stressed out, but we know that smoking is harmful. Also, do you thin...

6. How do you pick your vein for an IV?

   Chandra Lancaster posted a topic in General Nursing

   As a nursing student, I try to take every chance I get to practice IV's on patients, I still suck at it. Every time I start one, I get kind of nervous that I won't find the right vein, or that it will blow on me. My last clinical I got 3 out of 5 in,...