Answers below:Quoting "Erickson, Wendy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I need some responses from PICC nurses who work for a general community > hospital, not a pediatric hospital. Will you place a PICC in any > pediatric patient? we place from age 5 and up. Does it depend on their size, age, level of > cooperation, or something else? Level of cooperation and size If you don't do peds patients, how do > they get a PICC placed if they need one? We outsource under age five to an agency that does peds only. Does your interventional > radiology dept do them? Your kidding right? we can onlyget interventional here 3 days a week. Are all PICC nurses expected to place pediatric > PICCs or only certain ones? No How do you handle a situation where the > child needs to be sedated? The in house pediatrician stays on the unit and the peds nurse provides the monitoring an sedation. If your volume of peds PICCs is low, do you > do anything different to maintain competency? 1 to 2 per month On average how many peds PICCs do you place a year? Not enough. > > Thanks in advance! > > Wendy Erickson RN > PICC Service Coordinator > Luther Hospital - Mayo Health System > Eau Claire WI > > > ********************Confidentiality Notice******************** > > > > This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to > whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, > confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email message, > including any attachment, is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of > the original message. Thank you. > >
