Thirty years ago, healthcare professionals were limited to administering IV drugs through short-term vascular access devices. Today, numerous short-term and long-term access devices are at your disposal and, as technologies continue to emerge, new products and updates are introduced to the marketplace at a rapid pace. Because guidelines for the routine care and management of potential complications within patients vary from product-to-product, the effort to manage the various access devices available has become a constant challenge.

Access Device Guidelines: Recommendations for Nursing Practice and Education helps you develop the expertise you need in this climate of perpetual change. This new edition explores the latest technologies, management procedures, and other pertinent issues related to access device usage. Developed to provide recommendations for application of access device technology within nursing practice, these guidelines will provide the foundation for practice that you can use to guide your own practice.

Publishers: Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)

Author: D. Camp-Sorrell (Editor)

Copyright: 2004

Pages: 152