bruceirving

I just moved to Houston two weeks ago after accepting a home health job. Now I'm realizing it may take me awhile to receive full-time hours until I build up a patient load. Does anyone know of any LTACS hiring not too far from the Katy area. I only have two years experience as a correctional nurse.

Thank you all for your advice. Ive only had one nurse tell me all of that in detail. I needed to verify from a different source. I've had separate nurses tell me different things and others that have simply demonstrated without breaking down the component parts. I go back to clinicals next week. I will try to seamlessly integrate all the above steps. Once again, thank you!

I am a nursing student whose almost finished with the program. I've had less than twenty IV attempts so far with only 3 successful. Two of those were under the direct instruction of a nurse who was awesome at teaching and gave me the play by play. I've about made every mistake I can think of. However, I've learned from each one and have rarely repeated the same mistake except for one. I'm coming along well at identifying a locating veins even by feel. My angle is good and I know to anchor the vein. I tend to poke slowly, as I've been told, because I'm slightly hesitant. When I do pierce the vein, I can see the flash. This is where I mess up. My fear is infiltrating the vein so I tend to pull the needle back too soon before the catheter is threaded. The catheter will run into resistance because I don't think its in the vein probably because I've pulled the needle back to soon. Its happened on several occasions. Advice? Also, when I see the flash, should I begin level out my angle to be sure that I don't blow the vein?