Topics About 'Iv'.

Hi all, I just started working in an outpatient PACU and I already made a mistake =( 7 years as a nurse and the only med error I've ever made was giving 200mg IV thiamine instead of 100mg. I'm used to drawing up only the amount of a med I'm giving an...

When I give Lasix, I mix it in a 50ml bag of NS, and hang it over 2 minutes. If the patient already has some NS running I just push it over 2 minutes. Good practice?

Hi Allnurses Community, what's the best and easiest way to troubleshoot an IV that is not flowing? If there are no kinks and the line is patent but the IV still does not flow, what's the best thing to do? Thank you in advance!

Hi all! Just curious about some advice I got today. We have an excellent resource team who do procedures, moderate sedation, PICCs. We also call them for difficult IV starts when they have time. They are super nice and taught me how to start IVs with...

Hi there, senior nursing student here. The other day I had my first day of clinical in the PICU and I made a completely stupid and dangerous mistake. My poor patient was on numerous drips and have numerous IVs in her right arm. One of the IVs went ba...

Something has been bugging me about the last shift I worked and I would just appreciate everyone's two cents. I was helping with another nurse's pt during an emergency situation in which the patient was experiencing brief periods of loss of pulse and...

The hospitals in this city use the Alaris pump and this kind of Alaris infusion set: Prior to my preceptorship, I've always twist that end cap a little bit so that the IV solution can dribble out while priming. However, during my firs...

I'm in home health and have a pt who recently had a PICC inserted for IV ABX infusion d/t osteomylitis. I tried drawing labs from PICC (singe lumen) but was unsuccessful. I was able to get less than 1cc of blood. His IV ABX infuses with no problems. ...

The intravenous piggyback (IVPB) infusion is a method of giving intravenous (IV) solutions to patients. IVPBs are smaller doses of medication that "piggyback" off the central IV line. Table of Contents IV Piggyback (IVPB) Overview ...

Can anyone give an example of a documentation of an IV insertion? Thank you.

I could feel the pricks of hot sweat begin to freckle my forehead. My armpits dampened as stress quickened my heart. I made one last prayer to the IV Gods as my shaky hand, armed with the spike of a 22g needle, aimed at what I prayed was a vein. "I...

"Rolling veins" can be a pain—literally—for the patient and the phlebotomist or the registered nurse trying to get a blood sample or start an IV. Medical professionals sometimes use the term "rolling veins" to describe those veins that seem to move o...