Invasive procedures in psychomotor skills labs

[Ruth Brooks]

I'd like to find out the standard of practice among our group on what is done in your labs. If you are interested in the summary let me know and I'll post the responses.
In your labs do you allow
____ peer IV starts
____ peer phlebotomy
____ peer Intramuscular Injections
____ peer Intradermal Injections
____ peer Subcutaneous Injections
____ other invasive procedures - please list
Thanks for helping find out the standard of practice in the Az Sim Netowrk

[Donna C. Semar, Ph.D., RN]

We used to allow IV starts on peers with appropriate consent forms. We discontinued the practice after upgrading our technology to include the Virtual IV. We don't allow any peer invasive procedures to be performaed at this time.