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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This week’s QuickHit! comes from questions asked by families and community/ home care providers who have asked what is suggested practice for the use of masks for family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic period?
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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 Quick Hit was informed by a consult with a community/home care provider who contacted Connected Care Live with a question that resulted in the recommendation to do an emergency trach change.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from Connected Care Live consults from home and community nurses inquiring about how to sign up for Connected Care workshops and online webinars.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from a consult initiated by a home care nurse who asked for help in assessing pain in a child with neurocognitive impairment and who is nonverbal.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from an Enteral Feeding module that Connected Care provided for home care nurses. During the module, several home care nurses asked about when and how to do routine safety checks of a child's G-tube balloon.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from our community/home care partners who have asked us to confirm what we tell families in hospital about ‘how often to clean and change feeding supplies’ when their child is in home care.
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This QuickHit! comes from a home care nurse who consulted Connected Care Live to ask if it is appropriate to mix Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) 3350 with formula and administer it in a continuous enteral feed?
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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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This QuickHit came from a home care nurse who contacted Connected Care to ask for our recommendation on how to treat and monitor this child’s G tube stoma site. This low-profile balloon type tube had been in place for > 8 weeks and was starting to look slightly pink/red, shiny, slightly swollen and wet. This child was comfortable, tolerating feeds and no fever was present.
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The onset of the 'viral season' is a good time to promote the routine and ‘as needed’ maintenance of all home care equipment, including suction and other respiratory equipment that may be contaminated/infected. A suction machine is a device used to help clear the airway of mucus which is especially important to keep clean as the close proximity of dirt and bacteria to a child's airway may increase the risk of a child becoming sick.
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Cola and other carbonated and acidic beverages are still sometimes being used in practice to unblock enteral feeding tubes, however this is not recommended.
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Use the appropriate size insulin syringe and double check the dose when administering subcutaneous Low-Molecular Weight Heparins (LMWH).
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When engaging in patient-specific consults, Connected Care Resource Nurses (CCRNs) will use the PAT to confirm that the encounter is not an emergency. This is achieved by partnering with the home care nurses in completing a PAT.
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