#39: IV Therapy for Nursing Students

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 17 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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IV therapy is so much more than simply giving your patient's fluids. It's knowing what kind of IV access is most appropriate for your patient, how to care for it, what you can and can't infuse through it....AND it's knowing which fluids are best for your patient's current condition. In this podcast episode we cover the basics of IV therapy including the following: * Peripheral IV lines * Midline catheters * PICC lines * Central lines * Tunneled lines * Port-a-cath * How to care for these lines, how to use them and what meds/fluids can go into each one ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Confident Calculations - Learn a foolproof method for performing dosage calculations so you can pass your nursing school math exams on the first try! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Pharmacology Success Pack - Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack. Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wished that you had a direct line to your pediatrician to ask all the questions that constantly crop up while parenting? We sure have.
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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey there everybody and this is Nurse Mo and thank you so much for
0:47.1	checking back in with the Straight A Nursing Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about IV therapy. So this is one of those
0:56.8	things that you don't know what you don't know. And once we start talking
1:02.4	about all of the information that you need to know for IV therapy,
1:07.2	you'll realize that this is information you're going to use all the time. So this is appropriate whether your first semester, second
1:16.8	semester or second medsurg course, or maybe you're getting ready to go into your
1:22.0	clinicals,
1:24.0	your fourth semester preceptorship,
1:26.1	if your school does that,
1:28.0	or you're a new grad looking to brush up
1:30.7	on some basic information that you will use all the time. So basically let's start
1:38.0	with what is Ivy therapy? Essentially it is the practice of instilling fluids and medication into the system
1:47.1	via your intramascular access.
1:50.8	So it sounds so simple, but really there are a lot of components.
1:57.6	So let's talk about how we get this vascular access, the types of vascular access that we have out there.
2:06.3	The most common is the peripheral IV.
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