What's your favorite procedure?

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Specializes in Geriatric/LTC, Rehab, Home Hhealth.

Just for fun - Do you have a favorite procedure? I love giving B12 shots. I have a friend that loves blood draws.

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Starting IVs has always been my favorite procedure.

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I learned how to insert PICC lines a couple years ago, I love doing them.

It is a great high when the x-ray comes back confirming placement. I also enjoy doing therapeutic plebotomies.

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

Don't know if these could be considered nursing "procedures", but....

Intubations

Codes

Open chests in the room

Chest tube insertions

Inserting swans (if I've got a good doc doing it and it's worth it for the patient)

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Starting IVs and doing ABGs

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

I love GIVING shots (not receiving them though). :rotfl:

I also love teaching patients and other healthcare workers in anyway I can. Being able to teach would keep me in nursing, especially teaching pre/post-op care to patients. Anyone in the position to hire me, email me. :D :specs:

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I enjoy starting IV's. I also enjoy teaching pts before their surgical procedures, so that I can answer their questions & hopefully alleviate their fears. (that probably doesn't count as a procedure)

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I enjoy starting IV's. I also enjoy teaching pts before their surgical procedures, so that I can answer their questions & hopefully alleviate their fears. (that probably doesn't count as a procedure)

Informative teaching procedure. :D

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

As far as actual procedures go, for me it's hard to top IV starts (the more challenging, the better) and catheterization (I'm the only nurse who can get it in on the first try with this one patient, a 500-pound lady who comes in once a month to have hers changed). The only thing I like better is doing titratable drips in the ICU..........may not be a big deal to some, but for a humble med/surg nurse, it's a privilege to be trusted to care for critical patients and to be thought smart enough to handle it. :p

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Specializes in Emergency.

I absolutely LOVE starting IV's. My non-nurse friends think I am sick. :p I think it is because from the very beginning I always wanted to be a good stick--I would be in clinical and someone would be an impossible stick and so they would go get that one nurse who can always get a line. Well, I have always wanted to be that one nurse. I figure the more I can practice the closer I can become to being the good stick nurse. :chuckle

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of course, i see procedures all the time in the or. i really enjoy maxillofacial cases and craniosynostosis repairs, and i find deep brain stimulation really fascinating since the changes in the patient (who is awake during the entire procedure) can be so profound, but from a scrub standpoint, it's pretty dull. aaa's can be fun and/or hair-raising to scrub. seeing the anatomy is just the best, though. i don't really enjoy ortho cases, though - can't really understand why, but i find it dreadfully dull for all the work of hauling around heavy pans.

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Specializes in ER.

Nothing like a good cracked chest in the middle of the day...

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