Infusion Therapy Administration
Presented by Lisa A. Gorski
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This course is the sixth in a series of six courses aimed at providing the home care nurse with the essential knowledge to safely care for patients who require a variety of home infusion therapies. Home care nurses must possess a high level of knowledge and the skills to safely insert and manage vascular access devices, provide infusions via an array of infusion methods, recognize and respond to complications, and provide patient and caregiver education. This course focuses on the skills and knowledge required for administering home infusion medications and solutions, including safe medication practices, common home infusion administration methods, and the importance of patient education.
Learning Objectives
- Examine safe medication practices critical to infusion administration
- Determine procedures to reduce the risk for complications associated with infusion administration
- Examine indications, advantages/disadvantages, and safe administration practices for common infusion methods
- Plan for appropriate patient/caregiver education with attention to safe self-infusion administration
Meet your instructor
Lisa A. Gorski
Lisa A. Gorski has worked for 40 years as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and educator for Wheaton Franciscan Home Health & Hospice, now part of Ascension at Home, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a CNS, she has played a key role in the home infusion therapy program, contributing to clinician education, policy and procedure…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Safe Medication Practices
This session focuses on practices including reviewing provider orders, verifying infusion medications or solutions in the home, and medication reconciliation. It also addresses the issue of when/how to do independent double checks of high-risk medications in the home.
2. Infusion Administration: Reducing Risk for Complications
In this session, interventions to reduce the risk for complications during home infusion therapy are addressed. This includes a review of Aseptic Non Touch Technique during infusion, compounding and preparation of infusion medications, setting up the infusion in a home setting, use of SASH, and putting a plan in place for monitoring for complications relative to the home infusion medication(s).
3. Common Home Infusion Methods
This session reviews the most common home infusion administration methods, with attention to advantages and disadvantages of each.
4. Patient Education and Home Infusion
Effective patient education is critical to optimizing outcomes. Identifying potential barriers or facilitators to learning is essential in developing the patient education plan. Education should be consistent, with attention to plain language, and learning evaluated using evidence-based strategies.
More courses in this series
Introduction to Home Infusion Therapy
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Vascular Access Devices: Peripheral Catheters
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Vascular Access Devices: External Central Vascular Access Devices
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Vascular Access Devices: Implanted Vascular Access Ports
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Infusion Therapy: Complications
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Infusion Therapy Administration
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