Newborn Urgently Needs IV Access describes how a newborn who was just hours old was having difficulty breathing and needed IV access for fluids. Newborn Urgently Needs IV Access – Clinical Case This case took place in a hospital where a baby was just born a few hours...
Occluded PICC Removed with Client Shadowing describes how a patient in a Hospice center had a PICC line that was being used for pain management, but it was no longer working, so the facility ordered a Midline to provide vascular access for the needed therapies. The...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis, describes a case where an elderly patient who was newly diagnosed with ERSD (end-stage renal disease) was hospitalized and in need of emergent dialysis to address an acute kidney injury...
Previous PIVs Fail Repeatedly highlights a patient case involving an elderly man in a Skilled Nursing Home who needed long-term IV antibiotics to treat pneumonia. The facility ordered a peripheral IV (PIV), however, each new PIV failed within a day, delaying therapy...
Hurricane Helene Healthcare Workers Vascular Access Nurse Spotlight When natural disasters strike, such as Hurricane Helene, their impact can reach deep and personally affect not just the community, but the healthcare workers who come to their aid. In this case of...
Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution highlights the clinical case of a patient who needed reliable, long-term vascular access for IV medication and how Vascular Wellness improves patient care with customized solutions regardless of the setting. Customized...
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story is a little different, it’s an Empathy and Compassion Patient Story. We typically feature clinical cases and treatment, but today we want to focus on our holistic patient and family care approach, and how this sets us...
Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure describes how a patient, who had relied on Vascular Wellness to achieve vascular access numerous times over almost nine years due to her complex medical issues and difficult IV access condition, passed away not alone, but...
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...
