IV stop times

[Josh's mom]

My hospital is now making us document the stop time of all IV piggybacks and IV bolus infusions- both outpt and inpt. I'm just wondering if other places are requiring this.

[kcochrane]

They don't at our place...yet.

[sahm02]

we do it for observation pts only...

[fungez]

We do at Ascension hospitals as it is a Medicare requirement. It is also a PITA.

[nursein08]

We are supposed to in our ER....however, it doesn't work very well because most of us forget to do it. I can tell you I hardly ever remember to go back into the EMAR once an infusion is complete.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

They do it alot in the outpt areas - it has to do with how it is charged.

[nurturing_angel]

They do at our hospital.

[missdeevah, NP]

i work on a tele floor. we do this for observations patients only. the monitor tech generally does it at night, we pretty much look at our paper mars close to shift end, and let her know what time we started the iv's. she has info on how long it's supposed to run for and figures it out that way. we usually only have 1-2 obs patients per nurse, sometime none. so it's not so time consuming. and yes, it has something to do with billing. we also let her know when we give anything iv, subq or im. basically, anything that goes into a patient via any route, other than a natural orifice.

[BluegrassRN]

No, we don't do it. I've never heard of doing this.

[cardiacmadeline, RN]

We have to do it for all of our patients. It is another medicare thing having to do with money.

[Freedom42]

We have to do it in the ED. As another poster noted, it's a matter of money. They can bill at a higher rate for an infusion. I don't find it to be a PITA. Turn off pump alarm, chart at bedside, done.

[PAERRN20]

Yes we do this.