JakeEMTP Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 There is at least one school around here that has the students sink NGs on each other. Glad I didn't go there! :shock: We were discussing this very subject tonight! One individual actually volunteered to be the patient! :shock: On the original question, yes, we did practice IVs on each other before we were turned loose on the unsuspecting public. Nothing larger than a 18g though, anything bigger is just wrong. :-$
echo-000 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Posted November 14, 2006 We practiced IV's on each other in class.......I wore long sleeves for two weeks afterwards until all the bruises healed.... I hear ya there! I have pics of my left arm: It's certainly a learning process...
Dustdevil Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 I got two 18 gauges started on me the first week of October and I STILL have the scars. I never knew the damn things lasted this long! :shock:
Timmy Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 echo-000, wow that must of hurt. I hope who ever did that got better.......
windsong Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 I was at the PLC in the NW and I was walking by this one medic who was starting an IV on this guy, he said ouch loud and that hurt, and I said Oh the joys of starting an IV, and I kept on walking.
BushyFromOz Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 I think there is a OH&S policy that precludes it, so you get your practice in your student years on the road. In class is done on mannikins, but im working on diggin up some experience with a mobile blood collection sinking pins
p3medic Posted November 14, 2006 Posted November 14, 2006 back in my younger days, we used to get drunk in the barracks and start 14g angio's on each other, just for fun....pretty stupid, yes....we used to get creative with access, like the line i put in a guys calf, hurt like a bastard, or so he complained...
echo-000 Posted November 17, 2006 Author Posted November 17, 2006 Yeah, I agree. Definitely a memorable day. I have no clue why it bruised so oddly (don't know what was up with the dark red spots,) but there was a lot of itching and localized swelling when the tape was removed. An allergy or something.
ergo343 Posted December 19, 2006 Posted December 19, 2006 We started on each other. In order to pass we needed to start 4 lines per person, and since there were only two of us learning I was stuck a bunch of times.. What was really bad was when we only had two more 18s left, so if I messed up on my final stick, I would be on the wrong end of a 14. But we didn't start with dummies or anything, first with a rubber tube-like thing and then right into a human. The first stick did hurt though.
Dustdevil Posted December 19, 2006 Posted December 19, 2006 One of the best teaching techniques I have utilised is to force my students to go for the hard shots. Let them set up the IV and choose their vein, then tell them to choose another one, eliminating the easy shot. Make the AC veins "off limits" until they have at least tried one blind or difficult shot distally. If all they do is go for easy shots that don't even require tourniquets, they'll never get any better. I make them take blind shots at the cephalic vein on the wrist, going by feel. After a couple of successes at that, their confidence is greatly increased, as is their technique.
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