I need help with my first major speech: IV Therapy?

Question

I am doing a big speech and it's on how to start an intravenous catheter. I need to figure out the topics of it, I have to analyze my audience (i can make this part up), and my BIG issue is writing the specific goal that clearly states the exact response I want from my audience. Help please???

Answer 1

Intravenous therapy or IV therapy is the giving of liquid substances directly into a vein. It can be intermittent or continuous; continuous administration is called an intravenous drip. The word intravenous simply means "within a vein", but is most commonly used to refer to IV therapy. Therapies administered intravenously are often called specialty pharmaceuticals.

Compared with other routes of administration, the intravenous route is the fastest way to deliver fluids and medications throughout the body. Some medications, as well as blood transfusions and lethal injections, can only be given intravenously.

Answer 2

Here would be the performance sort of objectives (I used to teach Hospital Corpsmen):

1. State 2 reasons (indications) for administering IV therapy. (Administer fluids or administer meds -- but there are others)

2. Identify equipment needed to start in intravenous infusion.(sterile gloves, adhesive tape, alcohol swabs, rubber constricting band, bandaids, neosporin ointment, intravenous catheter of appropriate size, IV solution, IV administration set -- the tubing).

2a. Participants will be able to insert the connnecting tubing into the iv bag using aseptic technique.

3. Participants will be able to  apply rubber constricting band and identify an appropriate vein in which to start infusion.

4. Participants will be able to aseptically prep the skin with alcohol swab. They will make sure that alcohol is dry before attempting to insert catheter, as this causes a lot of pain as alcohol enterrs the skin with the catheter.

5. Participants will insert the catheter, bevel up, at about a 45 degree angle to the skin and insert until they receive a blood "flashback" into the catheter.

6. They will then lower the catheter so it is nearly parallel to the skin, and push the catheter --- not the needle -- into the vein.

7. Use one finger to compress the vein just beyond where the catheter lies so that blood doesn't come out when you do the next step.

8. Release the constricting band and aseptically connect the tubing to the cather.

9. Open clamp on tubing to let fluid begin to enter patient

10. Apply neosporin and bandaid to puncture site.

11. Tape catheter to skin as directed by local policy.

12. Clean up supplies, document procedure.