Priming the IV tubing

November 21, 2009 at 10:38 am Leave a comment

Some of us, for sure didn’t quite perform well on our first demonstration of priming the IV tubing. Even if we did score high on our demo during the skills laboratory, some of us find it difficult priming the IV in the actual hospital duty. One factors is what we call first-time jitters. Besides that we tend to forget the step by step process because of time pressure, thereby leading to mistakes. To refresh our memory here is a video on how to prime the IV tubing.

Watch Video: How to prime an IV bag for a patient

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