Vascular access expertise after hours describes how a Vascular Wellness nurse on her way home returns to the hospital to immediately help a patient experiencing Ventricular Tachycardia, a type of dangerous heart rhythm, and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action case story. Nurse...
Vascular access and patient collaboration describes how a patient with a long battle with cancer and various complications collaborates with the Vascular Wellness clinician on her vascular access treatment plan to help accomplish clinical and non-clinical personal goals and is the focus of this...
Fearful Patient and Holistic Vascular Access Care describes how a patient with needle phobia, having just been subjected to multiple unsuccessful vascular access attempts by facility staff, is comforted by the Vascular Wellness clinician who then obtains the correct vascular access; and is the...
Pediatric Patient Requires Compassionate Care is a Vascular Wellness clinical case story about how a pediatric patient with a complex medical history including severe infection, pneumonia, and seizures requires hospitalizations and ongoing vascular access expertise. The Vascular Access Specialists...
Patient emergently intubated with Covid-19 respiratory failure and renal complications needed proper vascular access after failed attempts describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to place the proper vascular access device after expert assessment of the patient’s needs and is the focus...
Complex Covid patient needs more access describes how the Vascular Access clinician evaluated a Covid patient, advocated a creative and clinically appropriate solution for multiple points of access, and created such access achieving the best outcome feasible, and is the focus of this Nurse...
Femoral Line for Cavagram describes how the Vascular Access clinician chooses a more clinically appropriate and safer Femoral Line to achieve access for the patient and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Nurse Clinicians in Action is a spotlight series highlighting some of the...
Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV Sticks and no vascular access and how the Vascular Access clinician was able to calm the patient down and achieve Peripheral IV (PIV) access is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Nurse Clinicians in Action is a spotlight series highlighting some of...
Internal Jugular Line and Vasopressors describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to timely place an Internal Jugular (IJ) line in a critical patient on vasopressors and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Nurse Clinicians in Action is a...
Internal Jugular Line when Upper Arm Infection describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to assess the patient’s clinical history and choose the safer and more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access instead of the physician...
Mastectomy and PICC Line can be Unsafe Combination describes how the Vascular Access clinician consulted with the patient’s physician to revise the physician’s order from a PICC Line to the more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) Line and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in...
A patient with a tunneled catheter fracture and how the Vascular Access clinician removed the tunneled catheter even though tunneled catheters are generally under the purview of doctors is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Nurse Clinicians in Action is a spotlight series highlighting...
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