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Responsive and Adaptable Hospital Support – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 59

Responsive and Adaptable Hospital Support describes how Vascular Wellness provides flexible and agile support for hospitals to handle virtually all clinical events, through exceptional scope and scale of vascular access expertise and interdepartmental collaboration...

24-Hour Vascular Access Consult and Coordination – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 58

24-Hour Vascular Access Consult and Coordination describes a patient who came to an Emergency Department on a weekend with a suspected infection in her PICC line, which she had in place for long-term outpatient antibiotic therapy, and the ED wasn’t sure of the best...

Dialysis Catheter, Mid-Thigh Femoral in Emergency Department – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 57

Dialysis Catheter, Mid-Thigh Femoral in Emergency Department describes a patient who came to the Emergency Department from a nursing home with a number of medical issues, including renal failure, and needed vascular access for hemodialysis. Dialysis Catheter,...

Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 56

Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line describes a critically ill ICU patient in a Trauma Hospital who urgently needed a temporary dialysis catheter for hemodialysis treatment, as she was diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis (a severe, life-threatening complication with...

PICC changed to Internal Jugular on Dialysis Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 55

PICC changed to Internal Jugular on Dialysis Patient describes an Emergency Department patient with chronic heart failure and renal disease who was prescribed a PICC line for administration of Milrinone, but the patient’s comorbidities made this a challenging and...

Nurse-Placed Central Lines in South Carolina

In the Room Where it Happened: Whitney Page and Nurse-Placed Central Lines in South Carolina Nurse-Placed Central Lines in South Carolina highlights the South Carolina Board of Nursing’s advisory opinion that adds central line placement by registered nurses...

First South Carolina Nurse-Placed Internal Jugular CVC – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 54

First South Carolina Nurse-Placed Internal Jugular CVC highlights a case in a Rehabilitation Hospital where a patient needed IV access for the administration of antibiotics, blood products, and blood draws. A Midline was ordered, but because of her extensive...

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 53

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside highlights a case where a patient with several medical conditions had accidentally removed his temporary dialysis catheter and the facility ordered a replacement Permcath, as the patient now needed long-term dialysis. Same Day...

Newborn Urgently Needs IV Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 52

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...