End of Life Care Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice offers a moving Nurse Clinicians in Action Story. This Vascular Access for End of Life Care patient case occurred in a long-term care facility (LTC) with a critically ill patient whose family was faced with making decisions on the...
CVC Line Training
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice showcases the 1st course in our 4 course Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Line Training series. Vascular Access Training and Education courses are provided by our VA-BC practicing Vascular Access nurse clinicians. Through our course...
Prioritizing Patient Outcomes
As Vascular Access Specialists, Vascular Wellness nurse clinicians are Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC), insured, skill-verified, and salaried W2 employees. Vascular Wellness requires semi-annual skill verification ensuring adherence to proprietary policies,...
Ventricular Tachycardia Patient Case
Ventricular Tachycardia Patient Case is a story about our Vascular Wellness clinician, on her way home after business hours, returns to the hospital to immediately help an expectant mother experiencing Ventricular Tachycardia, a type of dangerous heart rhythm. Learn...
Vascular Access Collaboration Patient Case
Vascular Wellness has earned the trust of many Licensed Independent Practitioners. These practitioners know that not only does Vascular Wellness do a thorough consult for the right line at the right time, the first time, but in almost all cases, such as this Vascular...
Vascular Access and Patient Collaboration – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 14
Vascular access and patient collaboration describes how a patient with a long battle with cancer and various complications collaborates with the Vascular Wellness clinician on her vascular access treatment plan to help accomplish clinical and non-clinical personal...
Pinch-Off Syndrome Patient Case
Pinch-Off Syndrome Patient Case (Pinch-Off Syndrome is the compression and misalignment of a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC), into a “v” position), a clinical vascular access case story about how our Vascular Access clinician diagnosed and...
What does a Vascular Access Nurse do?
In general, a Vascular Access Nurse provides access to a patient’s circulatory system through the insertion of a small, thin tube called a catheter. The degree of complexity of the catheter (aka, the Vascular Access Device (VAD)) in the body can range from IVs, Peripheral IVs (PIVs), and Midlines, contained in the arms, all the way to Central Venous Catheters (CVCs), including Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs), Axillary lines, Internal Jugulars (IJs) and Femoral lines (Fems).