This Quick Hit was informed by education requests from home and community care providers on current best practices for performing Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC).
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This Quick Hit was informed by a recent discharge of a child with a critical airway that required additional education for home and community care on the use of a stoma mask for manual ventilation in the event of an emergency.
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This QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a home and community care provider inquiring how to use a nasal atomizer to deliver intranasal medication.
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This QuickHit was developed based on a Connected Care Live consult from a Home & Community Care Service Provider asking if the NG tube was safe to use when the child's gastric pH was measured to be >6.
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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 was informed by a Connected Care Live Consult from a community/home care provider that prompted teaching about cuffed tracheostomy tubes
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This QuickHit is informed by the G-tube Team at SickKids. They find that misidentification and inaccurate documentation of enteral tubes can lead to serious safety events or potential harm.
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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 QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a community/home care provider that asked about a change in an infant's neurological status.
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This QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a Community/Home Care Provider seeking assistance with the assessment of a child, who was later diagnosed with sepsis.
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This QuickHit! was developed for providers and the children and families they care for, to offer guidance and tips to reduce discomfort and anxiety for the pediatric population when completing nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs.
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HINT: How do I perform inline suctioning using a closed system?
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HINT: How to accurately measure a child’s height and weight at home?
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HINT: What is the correct catheter size when suctioning a tracheostomy?
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This QuickHit comes from questions from community/home care providers regarding the most up to date practice for checking the placement of NG tubes.
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This QuickHit comes from a review of consults made to Connected Care Live and highlights the important use of a Safety Checklist as a resource for everyday practice in home care for children on long-term ventilation.
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This QuickHiT comes from questions from community/home care providers regarding the routine maintenance of indwelling urinary catheters.
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This QuickHit comes from a home care nurse who consulted Connected Care to ask which strength of hydrogen peroxide solution is recommended for cleaning and disinfecting a tracheostomy tube?
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from questions from community/home care providers and families regarding the best way to vent a G-tube to release excess gas, including how to properly use a Farrel Valve Bag as a method of venting.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from a community health care provider working with children and families living in a congregate setting, who asked about how to screen and recognize which children/youth may be presenting with new and worrisome signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
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