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On-Call Expertise Prevents Unnecessary PICC Removal – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 46

On-Call Expertise Prevents Unnecessary PICC Removal highlights a case where Vascular Wellness properly placed an ECG Tip confirmed PICC that the hospital mistakenly believed needed removal due to an X-ray reading. A Vascular Wellness on-call advanced clinician was...

Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis

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...

Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 42

Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis describes how Vascular Wellness helped an anxious patient, who needed extra time and assistance, to become calm enough for the nurse clinician to place a Vascath at the patient’s bedside so she could receive urgently needed...

Crouzon Syndrome Pediatric Patient Case

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...

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...

Fearful Needle Phobia Patient Case

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...

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...

Dementia and Cancer Patient Cases

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...