remove me please
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:49
AM
Subject: RE: RE: Biceps Measurement
The only time you might want to do it is if there is a change,
but even then it won't be accurate. No two nurses can really measure exactly
the same. We don't do it here at all.
Kathleen Witt,
RN, BSN
Nutrition
Support
Presbyterian Hospital of
Dallas
214-345-7468
I too would like to know this answer. This just came up in a staff
meeting yesterday. We have on our record sheets to measure 10cm above
the AC with placement. I personnally feel unless you are going to do
something with this measurement it is a waste of time. My hospital does not
require remeasurement with dressing changes or at any time after initial
insert for that fact. And if you do the measurement, don't you have
to have some policy in place to do something with the measurement if you get a
different reading than the last person???? I was told that this was a
"standard of care" for all picc placements. I could not fine anythig in the
INS Standards, but could have missed it. Any feeling out there about uupere
arm measurements.
Thanks in advance.
Nancy Sullivan Rn
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