Supporting Pediatric Bedside Nurses in Delivering Patient Education BACKGROUND Best-Practice Central Venous Catheter Discharge Teaching Lindsey Wood, BSN, RN, CPN, MSN Student Anne Kendrick, DNP, RN, CNE Charisse Stewart, MSNEd, RN, NE-BC INTERVENTIONS Support bedside nurses to provide quality CVC education through the following education interventions identified in the literature: Central venous catheters (CVCs) are increasingly used in the home setting, requiring patients and families to learn how to care for them. Many pediatric nurses do not feel comfortable or competent in their ability to provide this patient education. • Optimize Education Timing2 • Provide a teaching tool to space out learning and avoid information overload • The Journey Home Board: Maps and distributes CVC learning topics • CVCs must be cared for properly to prevent serious complications.1 • Bedside nurses are primarily responsible for providing CVC discharge education.2 • Several challenges, including a lack of training to provide education and limited access to teaching resources, reduce nurses’ ability to provide quality patient education.3 • Improved education reduces CVC-associated complications acquired in the home setting.2 • Utilize Teaching Resources2,5 • Create accessible multimodal education tools to structure and support teaching • A visual CVC booklet and skill demonstration video • Provide Staff Training5 • Train nurses about education practices and resources • The training presentation for bedside nurses: Designed to educate bedside nurses about providing high-quality CVC education METHODS IMPACTS The Model for Improvement’s guiding questions and PDSA cycles were used to develop this project.4 • What are we trying to accomplish? • Improved nurse comfort in providing CVC education • How will we know that a change is an improvement? • Pre- and post-survey quantitative data collection • Surveys included in project deliverables • What change can we make that will result in improvement? • Interventions identified from the literature review • Plan-Do-Study-Act • Used to develop the training presentation, teaching resources, and final project modifications Concepts from this project can be applied across all areas of nursing involving complex patient education. • Nurse comfort in providing patient education likely affects the quality of education patients and their families receive, which impacts patient outcomes. • As more connections are made between supporting nurses and improved patient outcomes, national organizations may develop similar guidelines for delivering complex patient education, such as CVC discharge education. REFERENCES 1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2025, June 12). CLABSI basics: Central line associated bloodstream Supporting Nurses can Improve Patient Outcomes CONCLUSIONS • CVC discharge education is a complex task for bedside pediatric nurses who face many challenges when providing patient education. infections (For everyone). https://www.cdc.gov/clabsi/about/index.html 2Foucault-Fruchard, L., van der Mee, N., Reinprecht, C., Durand, C., Cailhol, J., Zahar, J. R., & Kerneis, S. (2025). Impact of educational interventions provided to patients with a central venous catheter and their informal caregivers: A systematic review. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 14. 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-025-01583-w • Support through best-practice education methods can alleviate some of these challenges and improve nurses' comfort. 3Longhini, J., Ambrosi, E., Tescaro, B., Derugna, N., Ferro, M. L., & Canzan, F. (2025). Patient education during hospitalization from the perspective of nurse managers: A qualitative study. Nursing & Health Sciences, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.70052 4Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). Model for Improvement. IHI. Retrieved September 7, 2025, from • These interventions can enhance the quality of education patients and families receive, impacting patient outcomes.2 https://www.ihi.org/library/model-for-improvement 5Bailie, K., Jacques, L., Phillips, A., & Mahon, P. (2021). Exploring perceptions of education for central venous catheter care at home. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 38(3), 157-165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043454221992293 • Providing support through similar methods for all types of complex education should become a national healthcare goal.