Given the amount of acuity and time constraints we have with nursing and general crowds, I have been asked before why we do the cultures 30 min apart, even though we are using different sites? In these cases, with 3 different sites that puts you at 60-90 minutes of time and having to remember to go back- just looking for a better answer than a general “to make sure there’s no contamination” since the different sites make sense, but the timing I’ve had a hard time justifying.
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Given the amount of acuity and time constraints we have with nursing and general crowds, I have been asked before why we do the cultures 30 min apart, even though we are using different sites? In these cases, with 3 different sites that puts you at 60-90 minutes of time and having to remember to go back- just looking for a better answer than a general “to make sure there’s no contamination” since the different sites make sense, but the timing I’ve had a hard time justifying.