Occurred at a hospital infusion center.The patient brought a huber needle provided by home health services.Rn removed the huber needle from the packaging and prepped it per protocol.The needle appeared to have no visible issues and was functioning normally at the time.The rn inserted the needle into the port and checked for blood return.When the needle was inserted, the patient said it felt slightly different from normal, but could not describe how.Rn could not get blood return or flush to go through.There was no pain.The patient turned head and moved their shoulder, but there was still no blood return or flush.The rn removed the needle to find that it was bent at the base roughly 70 degrees from its normal position.The safety feature could not be utilized and the needle was disposed of in sharps container.
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