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The home health nurse is doing the dressing changes but they give us a hard time when we ask for more than one at a week. The paper the hospital gave us says twice a week. They wont let me, because I "wont use sterile procedures" But the home health nurse will rummage aroun in her purse with sterile gloves on. The Dr just said change the bandage more often. The picc line is on an 8 year old boy so it is hard to keep still.

I am very interested in picc lines. Someone I know has one and it always has blood around the insertion point, it looks like a lot of blood under the tegaderm, but it is really a small amount. We were wondering is that normal? There is no pain or heat and the home health nurse changes the subject an I am only a nursing student. I did learn from the previous posts that it is an open picc line.