Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice offers a moving Nurse Clinicians in Action Story. This Vascular Access for End of Life Care patient case occurred in a long-term care facility (LTC) with a critically ill patient whose family was faced with making decisions on the...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice showcases the 1st course in our 4 course Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Line Training series. Vascular Access Training and Education courses are provided by our VA-BC practicing Vascular Access nurse clinicians. Through our course...
Today’s Wellness Wednesday | Vascular Wellness Voice is a Crouzon Syndrome Pediatric Patient Case about a six-year-old DIVA patient with Crouzon syndrome who was facing another round of surgeries in this Vascular Wellness clinical case story. Due to her previous...
Vascular Wellness prides itself on using the latest technology such as ultrasound machines for vein visualization, especially when the vein can’t be easily identified, and our employee training includes bedside manner and identifying and addressing common fears as...
Dementia and Cancer Patient Cases demonstrate how the placement of catheters is not a benign medical procedure and does come with risks and the risks compound through the additional needle and line insertions (both successful and unsuccessful attempts). Despite the...
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....
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...
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...
PICC lines or “peripherally inserted central catheters” are an intravenous (IV) catheter inserted into a vein in the arm, to reach the area just outside the heart, and generally, should not hurt. A PICC line consists of a long, thin tube containing a...
