I work in a 140 bed community hospital. I have a total of 5 nurses (counting myself) that place PICC lines. All of my nurses are also chemotherapy trained. We work out of an outpt infusion service department. We are open 8-4:30. Our lines are not pre-scheduled, we just fit them into our schedule. Gets a little hectic on Fridays at 3pm. We have 8 hr wkend and holiday on-call coverage. We use MST/US for placement. We don't have IR who place lines, but they will help reposition under fluoro if we have a difficult placement. We only place the lines, we do not follow them after placement.
Sarah Jones RN, BSN, OCN, CRNI
Oncology Nurse Clinician/Infusion Services Coordinator
Upper Valley Medical Center
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We are an approximately 250 bed community hospital At present, the PICC lines inserted at our facility are done by one of four individuals that comprise our PICC team That team is two Nurse Managers who were willing to take this on as an additional duty, and two RNs employed to provide Nutritional Support Services (follow all central access devises, monitor tube fed patients). We provide service M-F 08-430.
My question is, what do other facilities this size and type do to provide PICC insertion services? Do you contract to an IV company? Use Interventional Radiology? Dedicated team? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
Lisa Kasten
Lisa Kasten RN, MSN, CNA, BC
Nurse Manager Med/Onc
Memorial Hospital
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