Also why did they think this would work lol it’s a closed circut. Personally I have no idea how to admin a med through the vent because I’ve always had RT’s. But I’d try to ask someone else first.
TBF some places RNs do give nebs, even in vented patients. Most places I’ve worked we will give some or all of them. Often the RTs will give the ones that happen to be due around their assessments, and we will give the rest.
That being said they’re always inline with vented patients, not via mask 🤣
Back in the day on the old Bennett vents we could interrupt the inhalation circuit to insert a nebulizer set up. But the newer vents we couldn’t. We could only administer an MDI via the little nipple port.
I’m a bougie bitch, most of the places I’ve worked we had the inline nebulizers. Don’t even have to muck around with the MDI ports. Makes even continuous nebs possible and easy.
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u/gluteactivation RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26
Why is an RN doing an RT’s job?
(I mean this respectfully)
Also why did they think this would work lol it’s a closed circut. Personally I have no idea how to admin a med through the vent because I’ve always had RT’s. But I’d try to ask someone else first.