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picc teams

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. :) :woot:

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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.

No PICC team, our NNPs place ours.

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.

NNPs and Fellows do ours, if they can't get it IR comes and throws a fem PICC in. NNP's do all dressing changes.

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.

80 bed nicu. We have a picc team consisting of day and night nurses. Some staff and some transport. We place all lines and manage all dressings.

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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