Hands-on teaching at home
IV medication teaching at home
Sent home with IV antibiotics or fluids? A registered nurse teaches you and your family to give each dose the way your doctor and infusion pharmacy ordered — calmly, step by step, at your own table.
Book today First visitPrivate pay — we do not take insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.
IV medication
What you will learn
- Checking each bag, ball or syringe against the label and the order before every dose
- Hand washing and scrubbing the hub (the connector) before every connection
- Saline flushes — and heparin, if ordered — in the right order, and why you never force a flush
- Giving the dose by IV ball (elastomeric pump), gravity bag, slow push with a syringe if ordered, or the pump the pharmacy set up
- PICC, midline and port lines: keeping the dressing clean and dry, clamps and caps
- Storing the medicine, and taking it out of the refrigerator on time as the pharmacy instructed
- Warning signs to stop and call: fever, chills, redness, swelling or pain in the arm, leaking, or a line that won’t flush
- Safe disposal of syringes and supplies
Who it is for
Patients sent home on IV antibiotics, fluids or other IV medicines through a PICC, midline, port or IV, and the family members or aides who will help with the doses.
Before the visit
Have the doctor’s order, the infusion pharmacy’s instructions and delivery (medicine, flushes, caps, alcohol pads) and the pharmacy’s 24-hour phone number. The visit adds teaching time to what the infusion pharmacy provides; it does not replace their nurse.
How the visit works
The nurse explains each step, shows it with your own supplies, and watches and coaches you as you practice — over more than one visit if you need it — so you can feel confident doing it safely. You keep written steps in English or Russian.
Is it getting better?
The nurse also checks whether the care at home matches the doctor’s orders and whether things are improving. If not, the nurse points out what may be missing and helps you bring clear questions to the doctor. You pay us directly, not insurance — so the visit is about one thing: the patient’s progress.
Questions
Questions
Who supplies the IV medicine?
Your doctor orders it and an infusion pharmacy delivers the medicine and supplies. We teach your family to give the doses safely and recognize problems; we do not supply medicine or equipment.
Do you take insurance, Medicare or Medicaid?
No. Visits are private pay — we do not take or bill insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. The first visit is $100 (regular price $150), each visit after that is $150, and a 30-minute phone consultation is $50.
Will the nurse do the care for us?
No. The nurse teaches and coaches — the patient, the family or your aide does the care. We teach the care your doctor or nurse practitioner ordered, and we do not replace your doctor, home care agency, supplier or infusion pharmacy.
Other skills we teach
- Wound care
- Urinary catheters
- G-tube & feeding pump
- Tracheostomy care
- Nephrostomy tube
- Insulin & diabetes
- Oxygen, nebulizer & inhalers
- Medication management
- Fall prevention
- Heart failure, COPD & blood pressure
- Caregiver & aide training
- Coming home from the hospital
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Our nurses teach — they do not provide hands-on nursing care, and they do not replace your doctor, home health agency, facility staff or aide. We teach the care your physician or nurse practitioner ordered. We are not a licensed home care services agency or a Medicare-certified home health agency, and we do not employ or place home health aides. In an emergency, call 911.