Social workers use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry and use research evidence to inform practice. As with the social work practitioner, social work educators also experience ethically-based challenges in relation to EBP. NASW and CSWE clearly promote an evidence-based focus in both social work practice and education.
Some drug infusion pumps are external and can be used in the hospital and at home. Others are surgically implanted into the patient. Drug infusion pumps can be used to deliver a number of drugs and fluids. Some of the more common uses include: 1  providing high-risk patients with critical fluids and nutrients. 2  delivering antibiotics (the majority of external drug infusion pumps administer antibiotics). 3  delivering pain relieving drugs -- pumps administering these types of drugs are often called pain pumps or anesthetic infusion pumps.
Intravenous fluids are administered through thin, flexible plastic tubing called an infusion set or primary infusion tubing/administration set (Perry et al., 2014). The infusion tubing/administration set connects to the bag of IV solution. Primary IV tubing is either a macro-drip solution administration set that delivers 10, 15, or 20 gtts/ml, or a micro-drip set that delivers 60 drops/ml. Macro-drip sets are used for routine primary infusions.