Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach

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SKILL 10-6

Caring for a Patient Receiving Continuous Wound

Perfusion Pain Management (Continued)

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To Remove the Catheter

12. Check to ensure that infusion is complete. Infusion is com-
    plete when the delivery time has passed and the balloon is
    no longer inflated.


13. Perform hand hygiene. Identify the patient. Put on gloves.
    Remove the catheter site dressing. Loosen adhesive skin
    closure strips at catheter site.


14. Grasp the catheter close to the patient’s skin at the insertion
    site. Gently pull catheter to remove. Catheter should be
    easy to remove and not painful. Do not tug or quickly pull
    on the catheter during removal. Check the distal end of the
    catheter for the black marking.


15. Cover puncture site with a dry dressing, according to facil-
    ity policy.


16. Dispose of the balloon, tubing, and catheter according to
    facility policy.


17. Remove gloves and additional PPE, if used. Perform hand
    hygiene.

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