Maintaining Short Peripheral Catheter Patency: A Comparison of Saline Lock Versus Continuous Infusion in the Acute...

Sheila Serr Roszell¹, Holly Barlowe Rabinovich, Cheryl A Smith-Miller

• ¹University of North Carolina Healthcare System, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Drs Roszell and Smith-Miller, and Ms Rabinovich). Sheila Serr Roszell, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, is the owner of Improvement Thinking Metrics, LLC, and is a quality data analyst for the University of North Carolina Healthcare System. She holds a BSN from the University of Missouri and an MSN and PhD in nursing, health care systems from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Holly Barlowe Rabinovich, BSN, RN, is a clinical nurse on an orthopedic trauma surgical unit at the University of North Carolina Healthcare System. She earned a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This project is her first foray into research. Cheryl A. Smith-Miller, PhD, RN-BC, is a nurse researcher at the University of North Carolina Healthcare System. She is currently serving as a nurse scientist, facilitating clinical nurses' engagement in research. Her research interests include nurses' work, culture, diabetes, and health disparities.