We are looking to redefine the current work of our well established IV Team. Currently we perform all PIV's for our adult hospital and serve as backup for the adult outpatient areas (ED, Same Day Surgery, etc) and the pediatric hospital. We administer all adult PNE and INF vaccines for inpatient adult patients and all chemo/biotherapies for oncologic purposes for adult patients on off-service units (any unit other than our 2 oncology units). We serve as a resource for central line checks/declotting, perform all Hickman repairs (mostly pediatric), access/deaccess ports. We do not place PICCs- this is something we did in the past and and are looking into taking back over. I was wanting to know a little more about other IV Team/Vascular Access Teams across the nation: how many FTE's do you have? What hours does your staff work? All RN's? What are your duties/procedures? How large is your hospital? How many procedures do you average per year? And any other information you may find pertinent! Thanks for your help.
Ali
You will find a new definition for infusion teams that was created and published in May by the Infusion Team Task Force from INS. This was published in the INS Newsline and you must be a member to receive it in the mail or see it online. We are currently working on a systematic literature review about infusion teams. This work will not directly answer your specific questions though. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861
I work on an IV Team for a 450 bed hospital. We only provide care for adults. We have 13 RN's on our team and provide care 24/7. Half of us are CRNI's. 8 RN's are full time (36 hours/wk), 1 RN works two 10 hour shifts/wk, one RN works one 10 hour shift/wk, and 3 RN's work two 12 hour shifts/wk. We are fixing to add a full time RN and a part time RN to be able to comply with the CDC recomendation of having 2 RN's placing PICCs at the bedside for the time out and to maintain sterile technique. We have 2 to 3 RNs on duty 7am to 730pm, 2 RN's on duty from 7pm to 0230am and go down to one from 0230am to 0730am. Right now we place PICCs independently with occasional help when staff available.
Our duties include starting dificult IV's, 30 to 40/24 hours for inpatient and outpatients (800 to 900/month), rounding on 40 to 50 central lines daily with dressing changes when due and prn, troubleshooting central lines for occlusions, Activase if needed, accessing and deaccessing portacaths except on the oncology unit, assessing and treating infiltrates and phlebitis, resource for staff nurses, data collection for DVTs & phlebitis, stats,etc., some difficult lab draws, placing bedside PICCs (120 to 130/month), 1500/year. We don't do any infusions or injections. We are strictly a vascular access team. We are pretty busy. Hope this helps. Good luck to you!