Are nurses injecting incorrectly?

This week’s interesting video comes from Western Polytech Hospital in America, where hundreds of people recently lined up for flu vaccinations in a makeshift clinic. What’s interesting about it is that a news story on the clinic sparked some calls from nurse viewers, who were concerned about the injection techniques displayed & queried whether or [...]

Read more »

Medication Errors: Behind closed doors

credit: Andres Rueda Medication errors seems to be a hot topic that is revived from time to time. Often it comes up in a slightly sensationalised form in the media, with grim statistics accompanying a photo of a busy hospital, and comments made on the negative outcomes for recipients of such errors. Exactly how often [...]

Read more »

Sharps and needlesticks

I’ve been fortunate enough to make it this far in my career without having a needlestick injury. credit: pikimota Correction, as a student nurse I discovered that 23g needles for intramuscular injections have caps that are very tight sometimes! So (pre-mastering of technique) I pulled from the end of the cap until it flung off, [...]

Read more »

Inotropes and peripheral lines

I’d be interested to hear of other people’s experience on this subject.  Do people run inotropes like noradrenaline (norepinephrine) through peripheral lines at all? credit: ZaldyImg Best practice suggests use of a central line to avoid peripheral ischaemia, though I’m aware of several situations recently where peripheral lines were used for inotropes – one argument [...]

Read more »