Being an intravenous nurse involves a lot more than sticking patients with needles. This specialty branch of nursing, with teams in most major hospitals, requires ...

Northampton Community College is offering a continuing education course in intravenous therapy for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. IV Therapy — Throughout the Life Span, 9 a.m. to ...

Background. Inserting peripheral intravenous (PIV) lines into often dehydrated, typically irritable, and universally uncooperative small children is an everyday task for many pediatric nurses. Success ...

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A "fuzzy logic" alarm system may help nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) predict impending catheter infusion failure – and prevent complications in critically ill newborns, reports a ...

BROCKTON — One Brockton nurse’s COVID burnout led to launching a new business Drip Queen Wellness, that changed her life forever. Latifah Gomes, 29, always wondered what entrepreneurship felt like, ...

Karen Giuliano, nursing co-director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, does research in the center's IV lab. A nurse-engineer team at the University of Massachusetts ...

Nurses serve their communities in many ways and have essential roles in healthcare. Nurses promote healthy lifestyles, advocate for patients, provide health education, and directly care for many ...

In April, an infection entered my bloodstream leading to near-organ failure in the emergency room. Over the next four months, I had a tube, or line, sticking into my arm and traveling toward my heart ...

There are 13 nurses on South Shore hospital's IV team, who work 24/7 offering support to 36 departments in the hospital. Clinical coordinator and team leader Irma Sivieri has 10 years experience as a ...