nursingstudent2016

I am a junior at my school and just learned to start IV's Today during our clinicals, i was sent to an area to start IV's on outpatients. The problem here is that i attempt IV"s on five different people and failed on all of them. On one of the attempts, as i was puncturing the pt skin, there was a popping sound on top of the skin, no blood return was seen. I told the nurse okay, i can't do it, can you take over now. She did and she started working with the needle to get into a vein and never did. Well when the catheter came out, the tip looked jagged and torn, my heart just sank. the nurse started a new IV and let the patient go. I told her, you sure the tip didn't break off? and she told me she couldn't give me a for sure answer and that it has happen to her before and nothing was wrong with the patient. Well I definitely did not want this to come bite me back in the butt and reported to my nursing instructor what happened and he reported to the head nurse on our floor and she said " it could had been just the needle rubbing against the tip, 98% chance the tip didn't break off and she was confident in the nurse overseeing me that if she thought something had happen, then she would had done something about it. But I just have a bad feeling...IDK!! I'm scared to start an IV now