User:KristinW88/sandbox

My name is Kristin Ward. I went to nursing school at Ivy Tech and graduated in December of 2010. After nursing school, I spent a year taking classes at IUS that were pre-requisites for IUS' RN to BSN program. In January of 2012 I began working as an RN at Frazier Rehab. We treated inpatient rehabilitation patients at Frazier with a variety of medical conditions ranging from COPD to car accident victims. I decided this past summer that Frazier Rehab wasn't the nursing job for me. I have decided to dedicate my time to obtaining my Bachelor's degree and then hopefully a Masters degree to become a Nurse Practicioner. A procedure routinely performed at Frazier that I believe is based off of evidence based practice would be flushing peripheral IVs with normal saline instead of Heperain. When I first began working at Frazier I was taught by the Frazier staff to flush ALL IVs with Heparin, and a few months after that the rules were changed and I was told to begin strictly only using normal saline with peripheral IVs.

''Yes, that is now an EBP protocol. If there is something you are interested in pursuing let me know and I will help you get started.''