1. Drawing Blood From a Hickman Catheter
Gather your supplies:
gloves
alcohol wipes
vacutainer set
blood tubes
normal saline
heparin flush
Posiflow adaptor

2. Drawing Blood from a Hickman
Wash hands
Put on gloves
Put vacutainer together
Remove Posiflow adapter
Scrub the catheter hub with 2 alcohol wipes

3. Connect the vacutainer to the catheter.
Unclamp the catheter
Push the waste tube onto the vacutainer and fill with blood, remove tube and discard
Push sample tube (s) onto vacutainer and fill with blood

4. When all labs have been obtained, clamp the catheter and remove the vacutainer device
Scrub the catheter with 2 alcohol wipes
Attach a new Posiflow adaptor
Unclamp the catheter
Flush with 3 ccs of Normal Saline and 2 ccs of 100 unit/ml Heparin
Clamp the catheter