A very important skill in nursing involves being able to give injections, including intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous ones. There is actually quite a skill involved in picking the right size needle and syringe, selecting the appropriate part of the body, drawing the solution from the vial, and injecting it at the right angle and speed. [...]
Day of IV Pumps
Today’s nursing repretoire consisted of all things involving IVs. We learned about the tubing, compatability, piggybacks, administering iv drugs, bollus injections, gravity flow, and setting up the pumps. Then, we got to play with syringes and doing saline flushes on these creepy fake rubbery arms. A few of us got distracted, and had fun squirting [...]
Nursing School
Here’s the latest group picture of the peeps at CSS nursing school. There are 29 of us in the 2008-2009 Post-Bachealaureate Program at the College of Saint Scholastica. That’s me cheesing it up, front and center. We all come from diverse backgrounds. Some are leaving careers as teachers, others from pharmacy, marketing, banking, business owners, motherhood, [...]
