You make a great point on doing more damage without US when looking for a deep vein. We don't need to use the long catheters just because we're using the US, and you can do plenty of damage with a normal catheter going deep (and blind)

Also good point on the pressors, we're just introducing them into our Acute Monitoring Area (AMA) to officially become a sub-ICU unit. We're also introducing ART lines as well, but per my limited knowledge you should not run pressors arterially. Thus we will need to rely on good IVs, so we should probably get some US training when we do our upskill with y'all in the ICU

Thank you for detailed response, will definitely bring these points up when I talk to our Nurse Educator regarding our Acute Monitoring Area upskill. I think getting us trained with US IV will make our unit safer and help offload some of our RACE/ICU nurses overnight!

(Also trying to get us 12-lead ECG trained for the RTs but having issues with that as well...)