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I think Beth, RN gave good advice. I an 64 and on a Med/Surg floor at a small community hospital. I have found over the last 10 years that the stress of management, ER and ICU is not what I want in my life. I also see that transferring within a company system that you have been with for a long time is nearly impossible after 55-you are usually too high paid. I also feel education is the key. Have you considered teaching? The future is a very good investment. They will be taking care of us.

Sometimes time is short or the patient needs Vanco or some other abrasive antibiotic. An AC stick can work and the patient can bend their arm as usual. Vessels can follow the pathway of an outer object-spacer. It is an alternative fix.

I am a very seasoned RN who has been working on a solution for the many AC sticks we receive on the floor from the ER and OR. These units all have very good reason to use the AC and even though the problem has been brought up by management at my facility several times, no changes have taken place. We as nurses are great innovators. We think in ways no one else would to problem solve and make our lives and patient's lives easier. Nothing is as disheartening as the patient who c/o the alarm going off so frequently they cannot sleep. All nurses experience alarm fatigue as well. There is a solution. My first job as an RN was at Emory University Hospital in a brand new field-Rehab. I had the good fortune to work closely with PT and OT to splint patients for various problems. That is when I was introduced to the inner aspect of the arm for prevention of contractures. My next logical step with the AC IV was to work in the same fashion. A cylindrical device in the inner AC works like a pipe bender and the IV cannot kink.