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Kevin Travis Flint
IV Team Office and Supplies

Do any of you use computer supply cabinets in your IV team offices for pt chargeable supplies?  Can you run me through the scenario of stocking your daily IV trays and how you are charging pts to replace those supplies you stock your trays with?

Kevin

anna liang
IV/PICC supplies are stocked

IV/PICC supplies are stocked in Pyxis and charged to individual patient.

material services are responsible for checking inventories and stocking 

Kevin Travis Flint
Is the pyxis in the IV room

Is the pyxis in the IV room or on the units?  If in the IV office how do the nurses charge out to the pt if they don't know what they are putting in the pt as far as angio size etc.  Also do your nurses caryy IV trays?

Kevin

anna liang
each nursing unit has it own

each nursing unit has it own pyxis machines. And the supplies for PIVs are stocked in each unit. PICC supplies are stocked in a couple of Pyxis, e.g., there is one Pyxis in the treatment room.

I usually assess pt's vein/needs prior gathering supplies.

No IV trays. I prefer carrying the PIV supplies with a chux for each patient. always take two PIVs for each insertion -- just in case. 

for PICC, there is a PICC procedure cart. 

Kevin Travis Flint
What's up with the

What's up with the chux?

Kevin

anna liang
Using a chux for each
Using a chux for each patient for a clean surface -- no worry about blood messing up linens or placing supplies on the beds. 
Michael Drafz
Michael Drafz Vascular

Michael Drafz

Vascular Access Specialist

Sharp Memorial Hospital San Diego, CA

Michael Drafz RN, CRNI, VA-BC

Clinical Lead Vascular Access Service

Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus

San Diego, CA

 

Michael Drafz
Michael Drafz Vascular

Michael Drafz

Vascular Access Specialist

Sharp Memorial Hospital San Diego, CA

 We do have our own Pyxis Machine as well. It is only used for stocking/re-ordering purposes, not for billing of chargable supplies. Our Pyxis contains chargable and non-chargable items. We take out what we need and by pressing the appropriate buttons it will automatically refilled 3 times/week. We have a seperate charge form which we fill in for the chargables.

For regular iv supplies (start kits, dressing kits ect.) we all have access to the unit based Pyxis machines and we try to use these supplies as much as possible so it does not come out of our budget.

Michael Drafz RN, CRNI, VA-BC

Clinical Lead Vascular Access Service

Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus

San Diego, CA

 

Kevin Travis Flint
Michael, My team is in the

Michael,

My team is in the same situation as yours however our machine in the office charges along with keeping up with the PAR levels.  Is your charging process cumbersome?  I have asked the IV team to stock their trays using the office supply cabinet unde the account "floor charge" which is actually the IV team account and then once they use a product on a pt take from that pts unit supply cabinet (we have omni cells vs. pyxis) so it offsets our charge.  Makes sense, well I am having the hardest time getting them to do that because for many years they just kept all their supplies in the office on racks.

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