Basic IV Skills Workshop: Insertion and Technique

Description

This 3-hour IV skills course is designed to provide nurses and learners interested in improving their IV skills with a basic knowledge of IV therapy practice. Using task trainers in the MAHEC Simulation Center, attendees will learn successful and skillful techniques to properly insert an intravenous catheter and how to minimize patient discomfort and complication rates. This will result in a boosting learner confidence and an increase in first-stick success rates.

The course has a 1-hour didactic portion that covers current standards of practice, legal aspects related to IV therapy, equipment required, site selection, step-by-step insertion instruction and possible complications. The second portion of the class provides two hours of "hands-on" practice via simulation. At the conclusion of this course, the learner will perform a return demonstration in order to be checked off on IV insertion.

Target Audience

Registered nurses, LPNs, CNAs, CMAs, and other healthcare providers

Objectives

• Review the history of IV therapy
• Describe the elements of successful IV placement
• Identify complications of IV therapy, the cause and how to prevent them
• Practice IV insertion

Faculty

• Katie Neligan, MSN, RN, CNL, PCCN

Credits

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March 2023: Basic IV - This course is full. – To join the wait list, please email MAHEC Registration

.300 CEU

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.3 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

3.000 Contact Hours

MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 3.00 Contact Hours.

3.000 Nursing Contact Hours

3.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-2107 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

May 2023: Basic IV Skills Workshop: Insertion and Technique

.300 CEU

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.3 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

3.000 Contact Hours

MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 3.00 Contact Hours.

3.000 Nursing Contact Hours

3.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-2107 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

July 2023: Basic IV Skills Workshop: Insertion and Technique

.300 CEU

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.3 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

3.000 Contact Hours

MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 3.00 Contact Hours.

3.000 Nursing Contact Hours

3.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-2107 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

September 2023: Basic IV Skills Workshop: Insertion and Technique

.300 CEU

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.3 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

3.000 Contact Hours

MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 3.00 Contact Hours.

3.000 Nursing Contact Hours

3.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-2107 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

November 2023: Basic IV Skills Workshop: Insertion and Technique

.300 CEU

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.3 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

3.000 Contact Hours

MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 3.00 Contact Hours.

3.000 Nursing Contact Hours

3.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-2107 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.