IV Pumps

Get ready! Reading

O Before you read the passage, talk about
Read the note. Then, mark the
following these questions.
statements as true (T) or false (F).
1 What is an IV pump, and what
1 is its purpose? A patient was injured by a broken IV purnp.
2 Mark needs an IV with a macrodrip
2 What are some parts and settings on an IV pump? setting to deliver medication.

3 continuous For a new IV pump, Mark should ask for

Nurse Jones on the 3rd floor.
IV pump she knows
where to
find them.
roller clamp I'll let her
saline

Vocabulary
O Match the words or phrases (1-6) with the
BO¼AJUBMA
know you're
coming up
direct
there today.
-Karen parenteral
definitions (A-F).
The IV pump in this room isn't working. A
patient noticed it yesterday luckily she wasn't 1 direct 4 parenteral
injured. You need to replace the pump before
2 saline 5 intermittent 3 IV pump 6
your shift today. The patient requires parenteral
medication, and IV is the most direct route of continuous
A containing salt
The pump seems to have broken roller clamps.
Yesterday's patient felt nauseous, and when B happening occasionally
checked the pump, the infusion rate was wrong. C happening all the time, without stopping
The pump administers a continuous drip when it
should be intermittent. D a machine that controls the flow rate of
Be sure to find a replacement pump with fluids into an IV
microdrip and macrodrip settings. Your patient
E going immediately to the place where it is
will use both. The first setting is for needed
administering medication, and the second
delivers a normal saline solution. F
If I'm correct, there are new IV pumps on the 3 rd floor. administered through a route other than the
We got them in digestive system
yesterday. Ask for
Nurse Jones, as
O Write a word or phrase that is similar in BMET: Hey Sally, are you busy? I and I
1 Because the plastic locking mechanism broke, to you about your broken are
we couldn't control how much fluid went down 1
Nurse: pretty
the IV tube.
Oh, hey Jerry. That's fine I easily,
BMET: talk.
2 Be sure to use a series of small continuous Great. Well, I looked at the 2
Nurse: don'tfthink I can fix it.
droplets to deliver the medication.
Ohmojxeally? The 3 beyond
m_ r d r BMET: rdpair?
No, it's not that. I fixed
3 If we don't get the frequency of administration right,
them butthe pump is still
we might make the patient sick.
Nurse: giving a drip.
n s n Oh, well that's weird. It's
BMET: 5
4 The doctor used a series of large droplets to
Yeah, I know. There's apparently
administer the saline solution.
Nurse: else wrong with it.
cr
0 Listen and read the note again. What are That's unfortunateu Did
you the 6 setting?
two types of infusion rates on an IV pump?
4

supposed to be
Listening
O Listen to a conversation between a something
BMET and a nurse. Choose the correct
answers. try testing it on
1 What is wrong with the IV pump? A the roller
clamps cannot be repaired
Speaking
O With a partner, act out the roles
B the infusion rate is wrong below based on Task 7. Then, switch
C the pump only works with a microdrip roles.
D the pump only works with a macrodrip USE LANGUAGE SUCH
2 What does the nurse suggest they do with I want to talk to
the broken IV pump? you about
Unfortunately, I
A call the supply company for a replacement don't think Did
pump you try testing ?
B call the supply company for new roller
clamps
Student A: You are a BMET. Talk to Student B
C repair the broken pump on their own about:
D replace the broken pump with another in problems with a broken IV pump
the hospital ' how the IV pump is supposed to be acting
' different attempts at fixing the IV pump

O Listen again and complete the Student B: You are a nurse. Talk to
conversation. Student A about IV pumps.

want to talk

have a minute to
 Writing
O Use the note and the conversation from
Task 8 to fill out the note.

Jeremy,

I'm leaving this note to let you know I installed a

new IV pump. This patient's room needed a new
one, because