Onceamedic
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Out of touch for a few days and a really good thread gets locked without any help or input from me.....
I have a point regarding this and I want your opinions on it.
Where I was trained, we generally put saline locks on patients in the back of the rig. When I got here, almost no-one was using locks because we don't carry them in the ambulance. A bag is hung for everybody whether they need fluids or not. I find out that if a patient transported to the ED needs to be admitted, then the nurses have to DC the bag and attach a lock because every patient with an IV needs a lock on the floors.
To make a long story short, we are encouraged by the ED to take their locks and flushes for our ambulances. I grab a bunch at the beginning of every shift. I am VERY conscious of keeping my hands off stuff that doesn't belong to me and I feel funny doing it. Seems to me the ambulance company is getting away with something here.
What do you think?
I have a point regarding this and I want your opinions on it.
Where I was trained, we generally put saline locks on patients in the back of the rig. When I got here, almost no-one was using locks because we don't carry them in the ambulance. A bag is hung for everybody whether they need fluids or not. I find out that if a patient transported to the ED needs to be admitted, then the nurses have to DC the bag and attach a lock because every patient with an IV needs a lock on the floors.
To make a long story short, we are encouraged by the ED to take their locks and flushes for our ambulances. I grab a bunch at the beginning of every shift. I am VERY conscious of keeping my hands off stuff that doesn't belong to me and I feel funny doing it. Seems to me the ambulance company is getting away with something here.
What do you think?
