Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient describes how a Vascular Access clinician was able to rely on his knowledge, training, and experience to expertly assess a quadriplegic patient in a skilled nursing facility to recommend and gain physician approval for a safer alternative solution to the...
Nurse Clinicians in Action
Emergent Vascular Access for Patient Transport – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 19
Emergent Vascular Access for Patient Transport describes how a Vascular Access clinician utilizes her advanced knowledge and skills and remains calm and collected in a stressful situation, to place a PICC line prior to transport, in a declining patient with poor vasculature after multiple failed...
Vascular Access Support Team – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 18
Vascular Access Support Team describes how our trained and dedicated Vascular Wellness 24/7, 365 days/week, including holidays, Vascular Support Team (VST) stands at the ready, connecting our vascular access expert clinicians with healthcare partners to deliver prompt, lifesaving vascular access...
Vascular Access for End of Life Care – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 17
Vascular Access for End of Life Care describes how a Vascular Wellness Vascular Access Expert provided an alternative vascular access solution for a critically ill patient by using clinical expertise and compassionate care to balance the patient’s needs and the family’s treatment requests. Nurse...
Pediatric Patient with Crouzon Syndrome – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 16
Pediatric Patient with Crouzon Syndrome describes how a Vascular Wellness nurse clinician provided compassionate, holistic care to a fearful pediatric DIVA (Difficult Intravenous Access) patient with Crouzon syndrome and helped the patient overcome procedure-induced anxiety. Nurse Clinicians in...
Vascular Access Expertise After Hours – Nurse Clinicians in Action -15
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 – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 14
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 – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 13
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 Vascular Access Care – Nurse Clinicians in Action-12
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...
Intubated Patient Needs Vascular Access After Failed Attempts – Nurse Clinicians in Action-11
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 – Nurse Clinicians in Action-10
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 – Nurse Clinicians in Action-09
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...
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