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I'm testing in a few days and did not purchase the extra ONCC questions. Do you think I should?

Hi everyone- I'm new here on AllNurses and have a question. I work in an outpatient infusion center and the majority of our patients have ports. We do, however have some patients for whom we place PIVs for chemotherapy. Our manager (not an oncology RN) just sent us an article advising NOT to use antecubital IVs for chemotherapy due to the extra space and fear of infiltration/extravasation, and wants us to stop using them. Has anyone heard this? We usually use the AC vein because it IS a larger vein and therefore less prone to infiltration while infusing. We hesitate to change our practice altogether here simply because of one article. We have been searching online but cannot find any evidence based articles discussing this topic. Thank you so much!