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...
PICC Services Articles
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....
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. Pediatric Patient with...
Vascular Access Nurse Placed Temporary Dialysis Catheters
Vascular Access Nurse Placed Temporary Dialysis Catheters can be safely placed, provided all nursing and other protocols are followed. Vascular Wellness, a leader in the field of vascular access, is one of a select few vascular access nurse companies that has a comprehensive program for Vascular...
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. Vascular...
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...
Mobile Care Medical
Mobile Care Medical is an innovative and advancing model of delivering health care to the patient at the patient’s home, rather than the patient having to travel to a medical provider such as the hospital or long-term care facility in order to receive treatment. This reduces the time needed for...
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Services, at a high level meaning health care provided without a hospital admittance, has been growing rapidly in the healthcare field and this is due to increasing new technologies like advanced imaging, virtual and remote care, telehealth, and mobile health applications. Many services...
Reasons for Long Hospital Stays
Reasons for long hospital stays include continued medical care such as therapy, surgical interventions, and chemotherapy or radiotherapy and also non-medical reasons such as staff inefficiency and miscommunication, equipment mismanagement, waiting for a community hospital bed, waiting for a new...
Empowering Nurses
Empowering Nurses is the concept that increasing the authority or power nurses have through innovation, education, and training, will create more efficient and effective healthcare in all healthcare settings. Nurses that receive additional clinical and non-clinical training are able to provide...
Central Venous Catheter
Central Venous Catheter is a catheter that ends in a large vein, either the Superior Vena Cava (SVC), which is just above the heart or the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC), which is just below the heart. Central Venous Catheters are also called Central Lines and Central Venous Access Devices. There are...
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