Q: Unless I was absent during class on weight based dosing, I was never taught to round up or down. I can round up the weight but the exact calculated mg/kg dose is given, no rounding up or down. The common practice where I work is to round the calculated dose up if more than…
Q: I am a staff nurse doing home infusion. I’ve seen an increase in new home patients requiring infusions of Remicade and Entyvio this year.I have a patient to start soon and I have found no evidence on how safe these drugs are if administered at home. They are given in a doctor’s office where…
I paused from the other side of the infusion center when I overheard a patient ask my colleague this question. After a very long pause, I heard her response. Nurse: Where did you hear that? Patient: Dr. XXX said I might get the biosimilar drug when it comes out. <long pause again> Nurse: Oh really? Ok,…
Q: We work in a single physician office based infusion clinic and we infuse drugs for rheumatoid arthritis by gravity, not by pump, because pumps are expensive. Me and the other nurse think dial-a flow tubing will be useful especially on a busy infusion day. What do you think? A: Dial-a-flo devices are designed to…
Nearly 53 million outpatient procedures are performed annually in the United States. While most of these procedures occur in hospital outpatient departments, a growing number are being done in nonhospital-based facilities such as ambulatory surgery centers and physician offices. One of these procedures include infusion therapy, the administration of fluids and medications via the venous…
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