Flushing IV tubing after Medication Administration

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Mon, 09/18/2023 - 15:28
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Whitney Elliott
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Flushing IV tubing after Medication Administration

Hi I'm wondering how your facilities handle flushing the medication tubing after administering an IV medication. I'm specifically asking about the medication IV tubing and not the port/line access flushing. Do you use a prefilled saline flush vs IV fluid bag vs something else?

I haven't been able to find standards of practice on this. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

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