Home Infusions 101: A Nurse’s Safety-First Guide to IV Antibiotics, PICC Care, and Coordinating Home Therapy

Home infusion can let people finish needed treatments in comfort—but it also introduces new safety responsibilities. In this focused 18‑minute episode Nurse Jessi opens with a 30‑second microstory about a patient sent home on IV antibiotics who worried about a leaking dressing. After a concise safety/legal disclaimer, Jessi explains the common types of home infusions (IV antibiotics, fluids, long‑term antibiotics, some biologics), who the core team is (home‑health RN, infusion pharmacy, durable medical equipment vendor), and what safe compounding and delivery should look like. Listeners get a clear supply and documentation checklist, conservative step‑by‑step PICC/port/IV‑site checks and basic dressing tips, plain‑language alarm and pump troubleshooting, exact one‑line and two‑line scripts to call home‑health, the infusion pharmacy, or insurer, and explicit red‑flag language for infection or line malfunction that mandates in‑person care. The episode closes with three immediate takeaways, where to find the downloadable checklist in show notes, a subscribe CTA, and the show’s signature safety sign‑off.