Library Guides: Professional Practice Skills: Venipuncture & IV Therapy

Venipuncture

Performing Venipuncture: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 3 minutes)
This short video demonstrates how to perform venipuncture.
Blood Collection: Performing Phlebotomy (Video Duration 31 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to perform venipuncture, troubleshoot problems with gaining venous access, and recognize common complications.
Blood Collection: Performing Phlebotomy
Includes a series of short instructional videos that cover; performing venipuncture, troubleshooting problems with gaining venous access, and common complications, also included are
guidelines for documentation.
Basic Principles of IV Therapy & Venipuncture (Video Duration: 13 minutes)
This video describes the primary purposes and benefits of IV therapy, including medication administration, fluid and electrolyte balance, and blood product transfusion.
Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture
Includes a playlist of 12 short video segments covering an overview of steps and procedures to follow to prepare a patient and how to perform venipuncture. Source: Medcom, 2016

Intravenous Therapy

Regulating an Intravenous Infusion (Video Duration 4 minutes)
This covers how to calculate and regulate an intravenous infusion.
Changing Intravenous Tubing and Fluids (Video Duration 8 minutes)
This program shows how to change intravenous tubing and fluids.
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation (Video Duration 23 minutes)
This video demonstrates procedures for the routine care and the discontinuation of intravenous therapy. It explains what to look for during a routine IV assessment and shows how to change a peripheral catheter dressing, an infusion container, and an administration set.
Discontinuing Intravenous Therapy (Video Duration 2 minutes)
This program discusses discontinuation of intravenous therapy.
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications (Video Duration 18 minutes)
This program examines potential complications, their causes, and appropriate nursing interventions, discussing phlebitis; infiltration; extravasation; occlusions; vein irritation/pain at the venipuncture site; a severed catheter; hematoma; venous spasm; thrombosis/thrombophlebitis; nerve, tendon or ligament damage; circulatory overload; septicemia; air embolism; and allergic reaction.
Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics (Video Duration 19 minutes)
This video examines specific IV therapy considerations for infants through school-age children, explaining the unique hydration needs of pediatric patients and identifying age-appropriate venipuncture sites for pediatric patients.