Can you share how she has had to "adjust"
her technique for the tapered catheter? We don't do anything
different
for our tapered catheters and just want to understand
what she is doing different for the tapered catheter.
Margy
Galloway
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Subject: Advancing tapered PICC
QUESTION For the Group: We have a bedside PICC nurse who has inserted
over 3000 non tapered catheters and is now having a GREAT deal of
difficulty adjusting her pratice technique to the insertion of
the tapered catheters which the system has asked us to use--The
"straight" catheter allowed her to gain a feel for placement that is lost
with the premature dismantling of the peel away dilator to facilitate the
advancement of the final 7plus cms of the tapered catheter--Any suggestions
from those who might have encountered the same difficulty?
--
Robbin K. George RN
Vascular Access Resource
Alexandria Hospital Virginia
Robbin K. George RN
Vascular Access Resource
Alexandria Hospital Virginia
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