This customizable document, Pump Tubing Changes, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Infusion Therapy Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Pump Tubing Changes:

	PURPOSE: To provide the agency's clinical staff with criteria for pump tubing changes. POLICY: Intravenous administration set/tubing will be changed at specific times to ensure that infection control procedures are followed. PROCEDURE: Primary Continuous: Change peripheral and central primary tubing every 72 hours and whenever there is suspected contamination or when the product has been compromised. Primary Intermittent: Change peripheral and central primary sets every 72 hours or immediately if there is suspected contamination or the integrity of the product has been compromised. ...
Second excerpt:
	...and central secondary sets every 72 hours or whenever there is suspected contamination or integrity of the product has been compromised. Continuous Administration of Lipid Emulsions: Change set every 24 hours. Intermittent Administration of Lipid Emulsions: If a single unit is administered, change set after each unit. Continuous Administration of Parenteral Nutrition: Change set every 24 hours. Intermittent Administration of Parenteral Nutrition: Change set every 24...