Inspiring Tomorrow’s Vascular Access Nurses
A Vascular Wellness Clinician is inspiring tomorrow’s vascular access nurses in an interactive session with students at Chapin Middle School.
Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 35
Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks highlights a Hospital at Home patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins made obtaining vascular access difficult, and resulted in repeated and painful attempts that were unfortunately unsuccessful. The...
Clinician Reduces Skilled Nursing Treatment Cost – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 32
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,...
Pediatric Patient with Trisomy 18 – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 31
Pediatric Patient with Trisomy 18 describes how a young pediatric patient with Trisomy 18 (a rare genetic disorder) needed vascular access for antibiotics and due to painful, multiple failed attempts, she developed procedure-induced anxiety. Pediatric Patient with...
Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 23
Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter at the Bedside describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician placed a Vas-Cath at the Bedside in a critically ill patient in need of emergent dialysis when no transportation options were available, enabling prompt hemodialysis....
Vascular Access for Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 22
Vascular Access for Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician notices an atrial fibrillation episode while placing a PICC line in an anxious quadruple bypass patient and promptly contacts the treating physician for additional medical...
PICU Patient & Emergent Vascular Access
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action case story about a PICU Patient needing Emergent Vascular Access. This two-month-old patient was suffering from RSV and pneumonia and needed additional Vascular Access. This case...
Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 20
Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient describes how a Vascular Access clinician was able to rely on his knowledge, training, and experience to expertly assess a quadriplegic patient in a skilled nursing facility to recommend and gain physician approval for a safer...