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A Nurse's Guide practice lab. Get the line on the first stick.
Most missed IVs are not about the needle. They come from a skipped step: no anchor, too steep an angle, pushing past the flash, or forgetting to lower the angle before threading. This simulator walks you through the whole sequence and grades you like a skills check-off, so the order becomes automatic before you are at the bedside.
A young adult with big, straight, visible veins. Learn the sequence, the angle and when to stop.
Darker skin, a forearm tattoo and hair hide the veins. The vein finder cannot see through ink, so you palpate and trust the depth view.
An older, dehydrated, needle‑phobic patient with fragile rolling veins, old bruises and a tremor who may pull away. Lay them flat, coach their breathing and anchor firmly.
Yes. It runs in your browser with no sign-up or download.
Nursing students, new grad nurses, LPNs, EMTs, paramedics and anyone preparing for an IV skills check-off. It is a way to rehearse the sequence and the decision points, not a replacement for supervised practice on a training arm or real patients.
The full peripheral IV start: tourniquet, finding and palpating a vein, CHG scrub and dry time, anchoring, insertion angle and speed, stopping at the flash, lowering the angle and advancing 1 to 2 mm, threading, releasing the tourniquet, occluding above the tip, attaching tubing, flushing and securing.
Yes. It works best on a computer with a mouse or trackpad, and runs on a phone with a simplified layout that shows only the tools for your current step.
Every step is covered with photos in A Nurse's Guide to Intravenous Insertion by Cody Kaufman, MSN, RN, CAPA.
A Nurse's Guide to Intravenous Insertion covers grips, difficult veins and troubleshooting in detail. 4.9 stars on Amazon.