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Criteria for on-call PICC and algorithm

We are a 3 member Vascular Access Team in a 200 bed community hospital. (1 full time, 2 part time 1perdiem on-call only w/ full time ER) We are presently staffing 7AM-7PM, 7days a week. It is greatly affecting our performance and proficiency when we are called back in usually uneccessarily. Does anyone have any clear cut criteria or an algorithm that we can share with the Nursing Supervisors?

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Sorry about the double post.

 

Richard D. Simpson RN, CCRN

Roem Memorial Hospital

Rome, NY 13440

[email protected]

 

Richard Simpson RN, CCRN

RDSimpson
Criteria

Our Nursing Supervisor will call one of us in under the following circumstances:

Need for urgent vascular access and unable to obtain after reasonable attempts, and no physician will place a central line.

Need for urgent central access and no physician will place a central line (for example: a patient requires pressors and has a coagulation issue)

However, I believe that routine 24 hour PICC service is going to be the standard before too long. Throughput is going to be more and more important economically.

 

Richard D. Simpson RN, CCRN

Roem Memorial Hospital

Rome, NY 13440

[email protected]

 

Richard Simpson RN, CCRN

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