Thank you. After listening to my wife’s go off for 2 hrs waiting on a nurse to come in this helped me turn off her iron and start back the other stuff ;-)
Appreciate this training, but I have to say I absolutely hate these pumps. They claim to have fewer air in line alarms, but this is absolutely not true. These stupid pumps are alarming constantly. It’s also ridiculous how cumbersome these pumps are. At max you can have 2 medications running through the pump at a time. If either of those medications is titratable though it makes it unsafe to have any other infusions going with it except for maybe a maintenance IVF. When you have sick icu patients on as many as 10-20 drips (this is not an exaggeration I have actually cared for a patient on 16+ drips) you have to have so many pumps they absolutely clutter up the bedside space. Not to mention if you have to transport your patient. You’ll need at least 2-3 other hands to help you push your IV poles down the hall. I can appreciate the safety of these pumps, but overall I feel it is a huge step back in IV therapy for bedside nursing.
I wholeheartedly agree! I remember my first encounter with this troublesome machine like it was yesterday. I almost cried because I spent so much time trying to figure it out. Back then, I was a traveling nurse, and this device wasn't even part of my orientation. I had a seriously ill patient with 10 IV drips, and this machine just ate up so much of my time. That's why I have a soft spot for the Braun Space Infusion and Alaris machines - they're so much easier to work with.
