This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Unnecessary PICC Prescribed – SNF Patient Case, highlights a case at a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) where a PICC was ordered to administer two weeks of IV antibiotics, however after reviewing the medical history and visually...
Reducing Treatment Costs for Skilled Nursing is a Nurse Clinicians in Action case that 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...
Vascular Access for Sepsis Protocol describes how a Skilled Nursing Facility resident with a fever of unknown origin was transported to the Emergency Department where she was put on the sepsis protocol for early diagnosis and treatment, and needed difficult-to-obtain...
