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...
Mobile Care Medical is an innovative and advancing model of delivering health care to the patient at the patient’s bedside, such as 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. ...
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 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 line 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 Catheter is placed in a vein for access in either the upper arm, chest, neck, or...
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...
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