I'm a Registered Nurse at a large institution in Central Florida. We currently have a 24/7 full service IV Therapy dept. including piv, IP access, PICC insertion, and troubleshooting, care and maintenance of all types of central lines. We average between 400-500 PICC insertions a month at our campus alone, all at the bedside. Just recently, our supervisor told us that we would be starting a PICC clinic where in-patients would be brought to us by transportation, and we would also be able to do out-pt. insertions there as well. Our team members started contemplating the pros and cons of this and I thought I would bring it to this forum for help. What kind of things/issues will we be needing to tackle? Stuff like helping patients to the bathroom or putting them on bed pans, treating hypoglycemia, meds we might need access to, should we be ACLS certified (though we are hospital based and can call the code team), etc. Any insight any of you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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