PICC TEAM NURSE - Casual

About the role

The position will provide vascular access care for patients as assigned for the adult and pediatric population. The PICC nurse is a vascular access expert and assists the care team in determining the most optimal vascular access line to meet the patient’s needs, as well as assist with vascular access education.

Responsibilities

• Inserts PICC, Midlines, Access and tunneled Ports and PIV via ultrasound guidance and determines placement via ECG or x-ray follow-up with the radiologist and documents the procedure.
• Assist staff by monitoring PICC lines, declotting, and discontinuing catheters with or without blood cultures.
• Perform weekly dressing changes and may assist staff with performing dressing changes.
• Insert peripheral IV throughout the hospital.
• Plans, evaluates and implements interventions for solving IV related patient care problems.
• Provide IV therapy and PICC instruction/education to staff, patients, families, students and physicians.
• Participates in quality monitoring related to PICC lines insertions and ultrasound guided IV.
• Performs other nursing duties including but not limited to assessment, sedation, IR procedures, recovery, patient education, patient follow up and other duties as necessary.
• May provide staff education to include departmental education activities related to PICC and Midlines.
• Maintains current knowledge of core measures and assist in performing