Drainage care Teaching 2467
Instructed patient once you empty your drainage, clean your hands again and check the area around your insertion site for: tenderness, swelling, pus, warmth, more redness than usual. Sometimes the drain causes redness about the size of a dime at your insertion site and this is normal.
Reviewed October 2019
Reviewed for general reference only. Adapt to your patient, agency policy, and scope of practice.