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 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 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...
Healthcare Outsourcing Services have become a popular way for healthcare providers or facilities such as hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, in both clinical and non-clinical areas, such as administration, to augment their internal staff or team or completely outsource their needs. ...
Central Line Nursing is the insertion, care, and maintenance of Central Line Catheters by trained nurses. Highly skilled nurse specialists typically will place the Central Lines, lines that end in a large vein above or below the heart, and other nurses will be responsible for the care and...
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...
Midline Catheter Placement generally starts in a vein in the arm just above the elbow and remains in the peripheral vein; it does not end in a central vein or near the heart. Midline Catheter Placement is generally inserted by PICC Nurses, who are trained in Ultrasound Guided PIVs, Midlines, and...
IV Mobile describes mobile nursing companies that may provide a range of on-call, on-demand, and on-site IV Access Services. IV stands for Intravenous and is a method of delivering medication and therapies into a vein for immediate access to the bloodstream. IV Mobile companies consist of IV...
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...
A PICC Team consists of nurses who are skillful in inserting, maintaining, and removing PICCs and Midlines, as well as basic lines such as PIVs. Nurses on a PICC team are usually more experienced and receive more training than nurses who place basic lines. The PICC line is more advanced than a...
Monoclonal Antibodies infusion Program for Covid patients is one of the more effective treatment options provided it is given timely and as prescribed. Vascular Access nurses are pivotal to creating safe and timely IV Access to help ensure that the intravenous (IV) infusions are delivered...
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