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  1. IV contamination?

    Futurern2753 posted a topic in General Nursing
    I'm a nursing student and went to get a vitamin IV drip at a medspa. I was watching the nurse after she set up my IV and was setting up the next patient. She spiked the bag and primed the tubing and when she went to hang the port end (which still had the cap on from the sterile package she opened) onto the pole, it fell on the floor and she just immediately picked it up and hung it back on the pole. She used that same tubing to connect to the patient's IV. Should she have changed the tubing since part of it fell on the floor or is it not considered contaminated since it was still capped? I'm mainly just worried for the patient. Are the chances they will develop infection from that high, or will they be OK?

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