 Wacom to nursing school explained in this video on priming a primary IV set and what we mean with priming is To get the air out of the IV tubing So when there is an IV tubing there is air in there And of course we don't want to infuse any air into the patient So priming just means getting the air out of that system So you always want to use aseptic technique performing hand hygiene as always And then it always helps to put on gloves because it just keeps everything a little bit cleaner and Then we use our primary bag in this case. It's wrapped here. So I will have to open it up And the easiest way to do this is just to unhook it and then look at the different ports So this one here with this kind of a rubber port will allow you to add Medication or add anything to it which we're not going to do for the most part in primary IV lines And then this little blue stopper here Just think about blue is fluid is where we're going to hook up our primary IV tubing So it's easiest if you find a space an IV pole to hook this into and then you can go ahead and pull this tab just remember that the IV on the outside of this port might have been Contaminated or might have some some bacteria sitting there. So when we're using our IV tubing our spiker, we don't want to touch this with the outside of this tubing and then so I use my IV tubing I take it out of the wrapper It's usually pretty nicely set up like this I take off any paper wrap that holds it together and A very important first part to do is to close the clamp Right here You can see it's kind of loose if I switch it the other way it closes the clamp The reason I need to do this is because if I start putting this in my IV bag The fluid is going to start running and it's going to cause a lot of air bubbles that are very difficult to get out So now I'm going to hold this in a secure way to where I'm not dropping the IV tubing Specifically not the port that's going to attach to the patient's IV on the floor or on any surface where it could collect Some bacteria so make sure that the cap is also on if the cap is off You don't know what's been happening use a different tubing please patient safety is always first So I've closed my clamp and then this the this is the drip chamber and then I have this cap on the spiker right here, so I will take it off and Then the spiker gets exposed and as you can see it's at an angle So it's very easy to push this up. So again, I don't want to touch the outside of this port So with my non-dominant hand, I'll stabilize this tubing get this extra tubing out of the way here And I push it In to this port sometimes you just have to kind of twist back and forth To get this to open up This is not a very easy one to push and also I don't want to touch the spiker the end of the spiker that's going in the IV tubing because I Could theoretically carry some bacteria in there and if you look at it I have made it flush to where the spiker now is with the flush with that port of the IV So a couple of drops already came out But it doesn't really matter because they just kind of collect on the side here From here. I press the drip chamber Which will push air into the back and let fluid come out Until I fill the drip chamber about halfway if you fill it too far Then you can't really see if it's dripping down or where this fluid is going So then after the drip chamber is halfway filled. I can carefully open up my clamp I am going to carefully open up the clamp and I can actually track the fluid as it's coming through the tubing Once it comes to the clamp, it's going to slow it down a little bit. I can see it come in here now Here's the fluid level as it comes through this last port and When it comes to the very end The fluid level is right here. I'm gonna very much slow it down Until I see just one drop coming out of The port that way I know that it's Primed completely then I'll close off the tubing. I probably have a little water drop coming down here and That way it's ready to go. I'm not going to unhook this until I'm ready to put it on my patient Now if I prime this in the patient's room, it's fine I could probably just clean off their lower lock IV access and hook this up and then adjust the pump to a certain rate For right now, I'm just going to hook it here keeping the cap on to make sure it doesn't collect any any Debris anywhere and then I'm ready to go So this is the priming of the primary line The secondary line is very similar and there's two different options on how to prime a secondary line So, please watch the other videos on how to do that skill. Thanks for watching