picc teams

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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. :) :woot:

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Specializes in NICU.

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.

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No PICC team, our NNPs place ours.

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Specializes in L/D 4 yrs & Level 3 NICU 22 yrs.

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.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

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.

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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.

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Specializes in NICU Transport/NICU.

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.

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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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