So I'm wondering if something was lost in translation here. Maybe if it was just one newbie berating you, we could chalk it up to a mistake on her part, but not a whole bunch of ICU nurses. We couldn't do our jobs without knowing this. If there is some backward facility policy backing the, that policy is WRONG and they need to change it.Īnswer 1b: The nurses in an ICU know this. I would file an incident report against them. The fact that they would question that makes me seriously question THEIR competence. They were through different lumens/ports whatever you want to call them. Anyway, I came here to get some insight from some fellow nurses, aren't triple or double lumen lines like a CL or a PICC designed so that noncompatible medications can go through different ports without having to start new lines on patients? I did not have these Y-sited in. Then the rest of her nurses belittled me about "oh did someone forget that?" And they all laughed. When I get up to ICU the director is waiting for me, and yelling at me for having levophed and NS with bicarb going through two different ports of a central line and how they're not compatible. So yesterday, I an ER nurse brought a patient to ICU with just respiratory and me.
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