TYPES OF LINES
This central line is inserted peripherally and travels to the SVC.
What is a PICC Line?
Being in this hospital unit increases CLABSI risk.
What is the ICU?
Reviewing this daily helps reduce unnecessary central line use and infection risk.
What is the need for the central line?
This is the minimum number of seconds to scrub the hub before accessing a central line.
What is 15 seconds?
Patients should ALWAYS do this before touching their PICC lines.
What is hand hygiene?
This device is implanted under the skin and accessed with a needle.
What is a Port-a-Cath?
This immune condition (like cancer or neutropenia) increases risk.
What is immunocompromised state?
This type of dressing is recommended to reduce microbial growth at the central line insertion site.
What is CHG dressing?
When cleaning the insertion site during a dressing change, this is the minimum scrub time using CHG.
What is 30 seconds?
Patients should report this symptom indicating possible infection.
What is fever (or redness/drainage)?
This type of central line is placed under the skin before entering a vein.
What is a tunneled catheter?
Having a BMI greater than this number increases risk.
What is 40?
This antiseptic bathing is recommended for ICU patients.
What is CHG bathing?
When cleaning the insertion site, this type of motion should be used.
What is a back-and-forth (friction) motion?
Teaching should always be documented in this.
What is the medical record?
This device is NOT considered central line.
What is a midline?
This nutrition method via catheter increases infection risk.
What is parenteral nutrition?
This infection prevention step is required before every central line access.
What is disinfecting the hub?
After cleaning the hub or insertion site, this must happen before proceeding.
What is allowing it to air dry?
Families should be encouraged to do this during education,
What is ask questions?
Temporary central lines are commonly inserted into this vein.
What is the internal jugular vein?
What is multiple lumens?
Central line dressings should be changed at this interval if clean, dry, and intact.
What is every 7 days?
This type of antiseptic is commonly used to clean central line insertion sites and reduce infection risk.
What is chlorhexidine (CHG)?
This teaching strategy ensures patient's and families understand central line care by having them repeat or demonstrate what was taught.
What is the teach-back method?