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The Home Infusion Nurse’s Role in Flow-Control Device Safety [virtual]
The expansion of home infusion therapies, driven by health care trends and accelerated by the pandemic, has heightened the need for home infusion nurses to understand the factors contributing to the safe use of flow-control devices and their role in error prevention. The Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice provides the evidence-based foundation for selecting and safely using flow-control devices across various patient care settings, along with additional standards to support ongoing education and to emphasize important quality considerations for the delivery of home infusion therapy. In this session, key best practices from the updated 2024 Standards are presented as a framework to describe the home infusion nurse's role in ensuring flow-control device safety.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the educational requirements for home infusion nurses to ensure the safe use of flow-control devices.
- Choose appropriate flow-control device(s) for patients in need of home infusion therapies.
- Safely utilize nonelectronic and electronic flow-control devices in a home setting.
- Apply quality control and improvement best practices to enhance the safe use of flow-control devices in a home setting.
- Explain essential educational concepts for teaching patients and/or caregivers in a home care setting.
- Recognize the significance of the home infusion nurse's role in ensuring flow-control device safety.
Contact Hours: 1
CRNI® RUs: 2
Amy Kyes, MSN, APRN, CRNI®, CV-BC, AGCNS-BC
Trinity Health
Amy Keyes, who serves on the Vascular Access Specialist Team, Heart and Vascular Services at Trinity Health, has over 30 years combined experience across home health, outpatient infusion, and inpatient vascular access services. In her role at Trinity Health and with A. Kyes Consulting Inc., she works with organizations to design and lead RN vascular access specialist teams (VASTs) that deliver comprehensive infusion/vascular access services based on current standards to ensure high quality patient and health care system outcomes. She is also actively involved with advancing infusion and vascular access nursing at the national level as well as a past member of the INS research committee, a Gardner Research Award recipient, an INS conference speaker/presenter, and an INSider contributing author.
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