I work in a small level III (a or b) NICU (20-ish beds). We don't have a PICC team, but we do have PICC nurses who are capable of starting PICCS. I think we have 4 or 5 PICC nurses.
We do have a PICC team for our 60 bed Level III NICU. Credentialed RNs and some NNPs are part of the team. They place lines and change dressings when needed.
I work in a 70ish bed level 3 and we don't PICCs. The story is a few years ago 2 or 3 babies died and they link it to the PICCs so we have midlines now. Our NNPs put them in.
Specializes in Level 3 NICU 17 yrs, Neo transport 13 yr.
I work in a 32 bed Level 3 and we have a PICC inserting team which consists of 2 NNP's and 3 staff nurses. We then have a core group of PICC dressing "changers" that include the inserting team and 4-5 others nurses that have been trained on dressing changes.
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In your place of work, are there NICU picc teams? If so how many are there? What are the responsibilities do they have?
I'm just curious. Wanting to compare. :)