Clinician Reduces Skilled Nursing Treatment Cost describes how a patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility needed fluid for dehydration, but her difficult IV access (DIVA) condition resulted in multiple failed attempts at placing a Peripheral IV (PIV) by the local,...
Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access involves a case where a patient’s need for vascular access for a blood transfusion was complicated by a fracture and a Vancomycin extravasation, which the facility thought was a tape allergy, and multiple failed...
Today’s Wellness Wednesday newsletter highlights our Basic and Advanced IV Insertion Courses. Participants are trained how to properly and confidently complete a successful intravenous catheter insertion or, as in the Advanced course, how to refine intravenous...
Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV Sticks and no vascular access and how the Vascular Access clinician was able to calm the patient down and achieve Peripheral IV (PIV) access is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV...
