This QuickHit was informed by family caregivers and home and community care providers who reported different practices for the securement of CVADs in home and community care, compared to the hospital
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This QuickHit is informed by family caregivers who report observing that there is a difference in how long they scrub the hub of their child's CVAD cap (top and sides) and allow it to dry compared to their home care providers.
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This QuickHit! is informed by virtual visits where home care nurses have asked if the same normal saline syringe can be used to flush both lumens of a Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) when heparin locking.
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This week’s QuickHit! is informed by a safety report documented when a child returned to hospital and their parent reported that a home care nurse taught them to lock their child’s PICC line with normal saline instead of heparin.
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This QuickHit! comes from a family caregiver who asked why we teach that they don’t need to wear gloves when giving medications via Central Venous Access Devices (CVADs) at home, but they see SickKids nurses doing it in hospital. The family caregiver also shared that their home care nurses sometimes do, and sometimes don’t wear gloves when performing this activity.
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At a recent Connected Care CVAD workshop, home care nurses told us that they were removing CVAD caps to access a CVL line for blood work and/or to heparin lock the line. They shared that they didn’t know that syringes (including saline flush and heparin lock syringes) attach directly to the cap.
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At a recent Connected Care Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) workshop, home care nurses identified that they were unsure about what is included in an emergency CVAD kit and identified that some families do not have an emergency CVAD kit at home.
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