The hospital's policy about cleaning catheter hubs and needleless connectors recently changed due to the serious concern about central line associated bloodstream infection. There is now a great emphasis on cleaning the luer-locking threads of the female catheter hub before applying the new needleless connector. All nurses have been instructed to wrap an alcohol pad around the catheter hub and rotate it several times and then allow it to dry. Four days later it is now time for you t [...]
