How to Start an IV | IV Catheter Insertion & Flush Technique in Hand | Nursing Skill

sister found the best vein in a hand period

Thanks for teaching nurse

Thanks for everything !!!!

One of the best iv tutorial videos I’ve watched! I’m returning to the icu after a couple years doing dialysis. Wish me luck lol.

Thank you soooo much dear Sarah and your hubby. God bless your family always ❤

I haven't had to do this yet, but I am a fainter with needles and apparently with needles in a video 😂

You should make vlog videos.

I find it so difficult advancing the needle + catheter and then retracting the needle without blowing the vein. I work with the elderly so they tend to be fairly fragile

how do you check for blood return? do you pull the plunger?

Have any of you ever encountered anybody with allergies to adhesives? I'm allergic to latex, any ANY KIND of adhesive makes me super itchy. I had a PICC line for 2 weeks once, and by the time it was out, almost my entire arm was red and blistered from the tape. Benadryl helps, but not much.

what happens if i dont get flashback? do i reinsert and fish for it?

Absolutely Wonderful

Great video with excellent step by step

Nope. I can't it creeping me out when i see the needle inject into...... haahahahahahahaahah

This nurse sounds like she makes the best peach cobbler in Georgia

My vein hurts watching this.

This was a wonderful demonstration!! You make it look so easy!

How to tell which cap is a neutral displacement cap, negative pressure cap or positive pressure cap?

Thank very much, l’m watching this video from Saudi 🇸🇦and all my friends Know u and we love your channel 💕💕✨✨

From Bangladesh
It is very helpful for me ♥️

that dude has great veins, i could hit that with a dart from across the room.

Wow great

THOSE VEINS THO

I sited my first IV today!

I've noticed that most of the comments are congratulations upon obtaining an LVN or NP associates degree or a Bachelors degree.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!BTW

However, this video is about starting an IV. This is another skill set.
I've been in the ER and/or surgery a few times.
They want to put the IV in the anticubital region because it's easier (for them). But it sux for the patient.

Thak you for discussing an acceptable technique..
When I was a pediatric intern, some nurses didn't care if the IV failed. It was the inters job to restart it.
If you think it's easy,think again.
Some of us were better than others.

❤️

You're the best! Thank you.

I’m going for an rn and I’m so scared bro😭 got me up watching these videos🏃🏽‍♀️

As a retired nurse I find your video's wonderfully informative. Wish I had this when I started. 40 years ago,

Could you have inserted in the bigger part of the vein? Where the bifurcation meets and created one large vein or is that not good?

I struggle so much with this skill 😢

Hi Sarah. So glad that today I discovered your videos for the first time. I'm not a nurse or any medical body/employee/nor supposed medical professional and nor am I American nor living in America. It is simply my love of all things medical and being a regular patient too plus a being a parent and daughter to parents now classified as elderly it is important I know exactly what is what and what is going on to keep us all safe from honestly some medical so called professionals whom definitely need to either seek out alternative careers, or them to seriously update their bedside/patient and seated patient side manner and knowledge by further study/return to uni or medical school. l feel even better informed through watching and always observe if possible what is being done to me or loved ones or others. Lack of nurse/doctor knowledge can actually be apaulling when a patient knows more about certain things than they the nurses and doctors do. I like to learn. My interest is deep and I find so many are sloppy in what they do into bad habits that I want to correct them 😂 but I instead observe and say nothing unless absolutely necessary as we do all have our own sloppy bad habits. I just personally don't find them acceptable around patients potentially putting them at risk. Perhaps I should go into nursing but fear my intolerance for sloppy bad habits would not go down well at all with the UK mindset being rather pompous, ignorant, archaic, stuck up, small minded, shallow and significantly backwards in thinking in general. Bless the NHS but seriously the sloppiness of employees is getting worse and lack of respect and tolerance for patients is disturbing and unprofessional. Almost 18 years ago I gave birth to my child, it wasn't acceptable then in the same way it isn't acceptable now of a nurse or midwife handling a less than 24 hrs old newborn with stinking smokers breath and stinkiing smokers fingers. Clearly having been outside smoking and then returned inside not washed their hands, and just came along and handled my pure newborn handing them to me making my newborn dirty for me to also get a sickening whiff of their supposed to be clean and hygienic stinking smokers fingers and breath that had just dirtied my baby and put my baby at risk. lt's disgusting. I can tolerate people smoking, but wash hands properly and brush teeth afterwards and don't handle babies or go near respiratory patients if they haven't. Have smelt smoke on the hands and clothing of far too many nurses and doctors, but on the hands and breath is the worst. Have also seen them using the toilets and walking out whilst on shift not bothering to wash hands. No excuses for it and other bone idol lazy sloppinesses. So anyway thank you for providing so many with these informative and very clear and helpful videos. ☺

I am forever grateful to Sarah for these videos. But her husband is truly the unsung hero 😂💛

Really love your techniques. 🥰🥰🥰..

super

Thank you Sarah👍

I remember watching these videos. Hopless mother of 2 no diploma trying to figure my way out. Got my GED and got into an LPN program. Today I am an RN holding a bachelor's degree preparing to enroll in anesthesia programs. I said that to say this, if I can do it so can you! This may be the beginning of a life you never saw for you. Never give up and keep going 💪🏾... peace and love!

Thank you Sarah and Ben !! ♥️

Thanks :))

thank you for share your knowladge, im from mexico and i appreciate it thank you

Thank you Nurse Sarah very easy technique to use the IV

Any tips on pushing in the catheter? It’s easy for me to hit the veins and get flashback, but for some reason half the time I go push in the catheter, I lose vein access or the vein blows (less common but still happens to me). It’s so discouraging! I feel like I’ve tried everything, going flush against the skin, going in A TINY BIT more before advancing the catheter, etc. I don’t understand, I’ve very frustrated.

I keep losing access once I advance the catheter....so frustrating!! What am I doing wrong?!

Hi nurse Sarah . Am still a nursing student in my first year. Still doing fundamentals but your videos have been really helpful so far. Thanks alot 😊

Just found your page. Thank you so much for showing this. I'm not an rn like everyone else bit an emt getting my iv certification and just started tonight and have been nervous about doing my sticks after we complete classroom work. This definitely helped so much and what's great is I can watch it again and again. I can't wait to watch and learn more from your videos as one day I want to be a firefighter rn, not just an emt

Hey 👋 am a student nurse in Ghana and I am happy watching this because I am doing my clinical . thank you 😊 so much

Hi saray ,I am watching your nursing video from when u started nursing and learn more skills releted to patients care and now a day I posted community health officer post and provide promote and preventive care 🙏🙏
so again I can just say thank u and love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Very nice visible veins...but those who doesn't...omg..blind shot praying there will be blood return after only one prick ...