Lake Region Hospital: case study in rural hospital intravenous therapy updating.
Rural hospitals, like large metropolitan hospitals, are constantly facing the challenge of updating and revising their patient care policies and procedures. Using information and guidelines formulated by professional nursing societies, rural hospitals keep pace with fast changing technological advances. During the past year-and-a-half, Lake Region Hospital (LRH) has worked hard to improve its I.V. policies and procedures. The guidance available through the Intravenous Nursing Society (INS) and the INS Network System has been central to these improvements. These changes were instituted by the I.V. resource nurse at LRH in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. This paper describes these changes in a nursing process format.
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D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000451:nursing*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000451:nursing; D006761:Hospitals; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous / Q000451:nursing*