Overview
This new and revised version of the successful manual, Home Care IV Therapy, provides a practical, comprehensive reference on safe and effective home IV therapy. It offers all the information needed to operate and administer a quality home IV therapy program with step-by-step instructions for performing procedures, criteria for certification and recertification, recommended agency policies and protocols, staff education material, sample worksheets, and illustrated patient education manuals. The manual also includes discussions of medications approved for IV administration and a chemotherapy drug manual, all in a convenient looseleaf format. It also features directions for the care and maintenance of the many new types of catheters that have come on the market in recent years. The manual is a complete and comprehensive infusion manual.
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Contents: Infusion Therapy * Obtaining Blood Specimens for Laboratory Analysis * Peripheral Catheters * Peripherally Inserted Central and Midline Catheters * Central Venous Catheters * Total Parenteral Nutrition * Intravenous Administration of Chemotherapy * Intravenous and Subcutaneous Administration of Opiates * Home Transfusion Therapy * Dobutamine Hydrochloride Administration Guidelines * Administration of Intraspinal Analgesia * Patient Education * Certification Programs
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