training new nurses for different clinic

[tubes]

We've been having all these new nurses coming to my unit to be trained for a different unit in another town.  Usually I will not let a new nurse touch me. Let me rephrase that...I never let a new nurse touch me. I don't know what I was thinking today but I let this young girl take me off. Well she put too much pressure on the venous needle before pulling it. I felt a little prick inside my arm. She got me all taped up and I was holding the arterial and I had the venous banded. The venous started to leak...Alot...she tried changing out the gauze. I shot blood up over my head and behind my chair, all over the floor and wall. She was like, "It's shooting out from the side". This is a spot I have never been stuck before. So the only thing I can conclude is...she punctured my fistula, the blood had nowhere to drain and it just broke through my skin. I can't wait to see what it looks like tomorrow when I take the bandage off.
I can't believe it...first time I let a newbie touch me and this is what happens. I'm sticking to my rule. Never again will I let a noob touch me.  Unless.....

[okarol]

ARRGGHHHH!! 
Good rule Tubes!

[twirl]

my last two treatments have been bloody , nothing like you experienced
we have so many employees come and go at our unit
makes me wonder
a lot of our new trainees train at the prisons around here
we have quite a few (prisons and trainees)
captive audience
hope your next treatment is better

[tubes]

Well, I feel like a complete moron. I should of watched the nurse more closely. But when I'm bleeding everywhere, I can't look. I'm just so glad she was wrong about me bleeding from the side of my fistula.  I was so scared to take the bandages off this morning...afraid of what I might find. A tear on the side, a bruise or even a hematoma. Thank God nothing was wrong. I guess she just couldn't find the hole. hehehe...She's not coming near me again. After all...Rules are Rules, even if they are made by the patient!

[willieandwinnie]

tubes, I'm so relieved for you.  I like your rule about newbies. I wouldn't let anyone put Len on or take him off for the very thing you went through yesterday. Take care.