Hanging Chemo at Home

[wonderbee, BSN, RN]

Today I had an interesting interview with a large HH provider. They get chemo patients and the nurses all get chemo certified. Is this common? In my current job, I haven't had any IV therapy patients at all much less chemo. The most invasive it gets for us is a tube feeding.

[cny4rn]

In the six years I have been in home health as an RN I have never seen IV chemo ordered. Have had less than ten IV therapy cases that I can recall. Have a patient with a subclavian mediport now that we draw labs from every two weeks. No IV therapy patients at this time.

[nservice]

When I worked home health, all of the RN's were chemo certified and we did hang chemo in the home. We did lots of IV's. Most of the time the caregiver was taught to hang the IV's and the RN would only have to come weekly for PICC line maintenance. Of course, the family could not hang chemo.

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

When I worked home health, all of the RN's were chemo certified and we did hang chemo in the home. We did lots of IV's. Most of the time the caregiver was taught to hang the IV's and the RN would only have to come weekly for PICC line maintenance. Of course, the family could not hang chemo.

We haven't hung chemo yet, but it has been discussed and is something we WOULD do.. nearly had a patient not too long ago who would have needed it.

If I did chemo, I sure would want to be certified.