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If your patient is getting IV antibiotics but does not need to get IV fluids in between receiving antibiotics, do you get new tubing each time you hang the antibiotic (let's say it's supposed to infuse every 6 hours over 30 minutes)? So once that 30 minutes is up, you disconnect the IV tubing from the patient, leaving just the saline lock so you have access for the next dose and the patient isn't tied down having the IV running unnecessarily. New tubing? Or do you plug the end of the IV tubing into a cleaned port of the IV tubing? Just curious...