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. Femoral Line for Cavagram - Clinical Case This case took place in a long-term...
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. Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV Sticks - Clinical Case This case...
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. Internal Jugular Line and Vasopressors...
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 Action....
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. Tunneled Catheter Fracture - Clinical Case This case took place...
Anxious and Distraught Cancer Patient and how the Vascular Access clinician pacified the patient and placed the correct Vascular Access device is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Anxious and Distraught Cancer Patient - Clinical Case This case took place in a hospital with a patient...
Dementia Patient Disrupting Catheters and how a Vascular Access Clinician overcame this obstacle and placed and secured Central Catheter Lines is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Dementia Patient Disrupting Catheters - Clinical Case Dementia Patient Disrupting Catheters case took...
In general, a Vascular Access Nurse provides access to a patient’s circulatory system through the insertion of a small, thin tube called a catheter. The degree of complexity of the catheter (aka, the Vascular Access Device (VAD)) in the body can range from IVs, Peripheral IVs (PIVs), and...
Pinch-Off Syndrome (ie, the compression and misalignment of a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC), into a "v" position) and how the Vascular Access clinician diagnosed and treated the problem is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Pinch-Off Syndrome - Clinical Case This case...
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