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Ralstonia pickettii- what nurses need to know??


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1 Nursing Superintendent, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Bengaluru, India
     

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Infusion nursing is a specialty and is focused on the care of patients receiving intravenous (IV) therapy, having an access device in place such as peripheral IV catheter, centrally inserted or PICC line catheters and are used to administer wide variety of medications. Several outbreaks of Ralstonia have been reported in the hospitals till now, and the majority caused by contaminated intravenous fluids and water used for injections. The nurse’s responsibilities relies mainly on understanding the basic elements of standard precautions that are specifically aimed at protecting the patient and prevention of infections.

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Infusion, Ralstonia, Contamination, Catheters, Standard precautions.
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  • Infusion Nursing, Standards of Practice developed by INS. 2011 2. Wiskham Laboratories LTD. UK accessed on November 20th /2021 3. Lynn D Phlips, Lisa A Gorski. Manual of IV therapeutics-evidence based practice for Infusion therapy. 6th Edition. FA Davis company. Philadelphia.2014. 4. Yin-Yin Chen. Wan-Tsuei Haung. An outbreak of Ralstonia Pickettii Blood stream Infection Associated with an Intrinsically Contaminated Normal Saline Solution. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:444-448.


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Sailaja Busi
Nursing Superintendent, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Bengaluru, India

Abstract


Infusion nursing is a specialty and is focused on the care of patients receiving intravenous (IV) therapy, having an access device in place such as peripheral IV catheter, centrally inserted or PICC line catheters and are used to administer wide variety of medications. Several outbreaks of Ralstonia have been reported in the hospitals till now, and the majority caused by contaminated intravenous fluids and water used for injections. The nurse’s responsibilities relies mainly on understanding the basic elements of standard precautions that are specifically aimed at protecting the patient and prevention of infections.

Keywords


Infusion, Ralstonia, Contamination, Catheters, Standard precautions.

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