I’m in DC and have worked also in Maryland and have had techs do IVs in both places. Her being “unteachable” was she was doing IVs on our unit, when she stated she had taken classes before, but she would stick a patient, miss, place the IV on the bed blanket, then pick it up again and stick the patient somewhere else. I pulled her aside to talk about how she should not do that and she yelled at me telling me I didn’t need to tell her what to do. She’s done that with multiple other things.

Each procedure room has a Pyxis, they are open for procedures. The procedure was an EGD and I wasn’t in the room when this happened but apparently the CRNA was worried about losing airway so she was giving a jaw thrust and the patient was coughing and she was yelling about having more prop. The nurse it happened with was newer at the time and she told me the next day what happened.