I have had lymes disease for two years now and they had me do a picc line for a month and yeah i felt better but day by day i am feeling worse and worse again...so i'll probably have to start it again which i am not looking forward to. I just want them to find a cure for the disease soon!
Why on earth didn't he change the stat lock?! He put alcohol on it which loosens the adhesive, basically making it completely useless! Wow. There is just so much wrong with that situation. I hope you never got any infections!!
@SellyNue The hospital I got my PiCC placed, Cedars-Sinai says it only needs to be changed once per month. I also did not have them supplied by my IV supply company, so I asked him to only change them once a month. Never had a problem. The alcohol never loosened it. I wonder why because that is what is used to remove the stat lock.
Well I don't think the patient needs to wear a mask if she turns her head and doesn't breathe on the site which she mistakenly does. I never cover my PICC so that you can't see the insertion site and you are supposed to change the dressing every other day if you do this. The stat lock should have been changed. Instead of the scissors use with sterile dressing after dressing applied I would have cut a small slit in a piece of tape and come at the PICC at opposite end to secure.
i have to do my picc line infusions and dressing changes myself. gag. b/c my insurance doesnt cover any homehealth now that i've reached my policy limits. i so wish i had someone professional come and do it for me. i try to keep my infusions as sterile as possible, but a one-armed bandit can only do so much. lol
@amandanstevens You don't have your PICC line anymore do you? If you do, there are extensions that you can get so that you can do your infusions super easily! No crazy contortions needed! They have 12 inch ones and 7 inch ones. We do my dressing changes too but my sister helps me so its much easier!
yes there are barrier tech. broken as well cross contamination. but come on this is the real world. plus explaining as you go along, and conversing with you might have kept you to shut up man annoying.
Wow! I am a RN. I hope you haven't encountered a Blood Stream Infection as a result of your "nurse's" poor technique.. 1) You have no mask on, and I am betting that the person filiming doesn't have one on either. 2) There is a bird in the room! 3) Your "nurse" failed to wash their hands before taking off and putting on new gloves - which I hope were sterile. 4) The nurse repeatedly breaks sterility by reaching outside the sterile field. Tsk...tsk...tsk. And that is not everything!
@lawsonfam I loved my nurse. I was so grateful to have him. He was the best. He was also free. Came to me once a week out of the kindness of his heart. He never did wash his hands in between the glove change (2nd set were sterile). My kits only came with one mask & now I do my dressing changes on my own. Not fun!
@lawsonfam There is no need to wash hands in between clean gloves to put on sterile gloves as you would have washed your hands before starting the procedure, a healthy patient like this doesn't need a mask as she is not coughing and this is just a suggestion. The person filming the procedure is so far away that it doesn't matter. Get an updated education. You should see how they do things in 3rd world countries and although rates are lower, people still live.
I have had lymes disease for two years now and they had me do a picc line for a month and yeah i felt better but day by day i am feeling worse and worse again...so i'll probably have to start it again which i am not looking forward to. I just want them to find a cure for the disease soon!
kyron1994 2 months ago
I am sure there is a nursing student out there that would love the practice!! Just a thought!!
sunkissednurse 6 months ago
Why on earth didn't he change the stat lock?! He put alcohol on it which loosens the adhesive, basically making it completely useless! Wow. There is just so much wrong with that situation. I hope you never got any infections!!
SellyNue 10 months ago
@SellyNue The hospital I got my PiCC placed, Cedars-Sinai says it only needs to be changed once per month. I also did not have them supplied by my IV supply company, so I asked him to only change them once a month. Never had a problem. The alcohol never loosened it. I wonder why because that is what is used to remove the stat lock.
sonyafly 9 months ago
Well I don't think the patient needs to wear a mask if she turns her head and doesn't breathe on the site which she mistakenly does. I never cover my PICC so that you can't see the insertion site and you are supposed to change the dressing every other day if you do this. The stat lock should have been changed. Instead of the scissors use with sterile dressing after dressing applied I would have cut a small slit in a piece of tape and come at the PICC at opposite end to secure.
imadoll1980 10 months ago
i have to do my picc line infusions and dressing changes myself. gag. b/c my insurance doesnt cover any homehealth now that i've reached my policy limits. i so wish i had someone professional come and do it for me. i try to keep my infusions as sterile as possible, but a one-armed bandit can only do so much. lol
amandanstevens 10 months ago
@amandanstevens You don't have your PICC line anymore do you? If you do, there are extensions that you can get so that you can do your infusions super easily! No crazy contortions needed! They have 12 inch ones and 7 inch ones. We do my dressing changes too but my sister helps me so its much easier!
SellyNue 10 months ago
@amandanstevens I do mine on my own now as well. The nurse in this video came out of the kindness of his heart for free for months until I moved.
sonyafly 9 months ago
i love your crow in the background! :)
PillowBiterrVids 11 months ago
@PillowBiterrVids Me too. He is a rescue. Twice the size now.
sonyafly 9 months ago
yes there are barrier tech. broken as well cross contamination. but come on this is the real world. plus explaining as you go along, and conversing with you might have kept you to shut up man annoying.
phycosis17 11 months ago
Wow! I am a RN. I hope you haven't encountered a Blood Stream Infection as a result of your "nurse's" poor technique.. 1) You have no mask on, and I am betting that the person filiming doesn't have one on either. 2) There is a bird in the room! 3) Your "nurse" failed to wash their hands before taking off and putting on new gloves - which I hope were sterile. 4) The nurse repeatedly breaks sterility by reaching outside the sterile field. Tsk...tsk...tsk. And that is not everything!
lawsonfam 11 months ago
@lawsonfam I loved my nurse. I was so grateful to have him. He was the best. He was also free. Came to me once a week out of the kindness of his heart. He never did wash his hands in between the glove change (2nd set were sterile). My kits only came with one mask & now I do my dressing changes on my own. Not fun!
sonyafly 9 months ago
@sonyafly Could you get a nursing student to do it for you? Someone out there would probably love the practice!
sunkissednurse 6 months ago
@lawsonfam There is no need to wash hands in between clean gloves to put on sterile gloves as you would have washed your hands before starting the procedure, a healthy patient like this doesn't need a mask as she is not coughing and this is just a suggestion. The person filming the procedure is so far away that it doesn't matter. Get an updated education. You should see how they do things in 3rd world countries and although rates are lower, people still live.
cndbabe2010 2 months ago
@cndbabe2010 Thank you for commenting to lawsonfam, who has clearly never compromised technique for pragmatism.
snap2012lad 3 weeks ago