We’re continuing our topics today for Pharmacological & Parenteral Therapies and today we’re covering Central Venous access Devices.
Chapter 12 in Saunders (page 134) Parenteral nutrition
Chapter 13 in Saunders (page 144) IV therapy
A good overview can be found here.
https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/central-venous-access-devices/
A great resource that covers most of the things you need to know – which are listed below.
https://www.mghpcs.org/eed_portal/documents/central_lines/cl_module3.pdf
Things to make sure you know how to / review.
- Educate the client on the reason for and care of a venous access device
2.Why do they need it. For each client the answer will probably be different. One of the most frequent is they need a line for medications, fluids or blood to name a few. Access venous access devices, including tunneled, implanted and central line.
3.Provide care for client with a central venous access device (e.g., port-a-cath, Hickman)
Next time we’ll talk about dosage calculations.
