ValeryRN

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1. Reducing CLABSIs by prohibiting blood draws from line?

   ValeryRN replied to fartjohnson's topic in General Nursing

   Reducing CLABSI is a challenging process and requires proper staff education: hub scrubbing, flushing, dressing care, keeping the system closed with claves..We are constantly improving our protocol: we recently started covering the claves with an alc...

2. Should we change the needleless hub after drawing blood from a central catheter?

   ValeryRN replied to Probably's topic in MICU

   Hi We do not change the clave after blood draw. We change it every 7 days. Push/pause flushing with 20 cc NS after blood draw cleans the connector and catheter lumen.

3. Needless Intravenous Connectors

   ValeryRN replied to rj27's topic in Critical

   We used split septum micro Clave/ nano clave with push/pause flushing technique and have very low CLABSI rates. however we recently switched to a new connector called Neutron and have even better results. We never use needlefree connectors on pressur...