Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story highlights a Hospital at Home – Difficult IV Access patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins resulted in difficult vascular access and nearly a dozen painful and unsuccessful attempts....
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story is a little different, it’s an Empathy and Compassion Patient Story. We typically feature clinical cases and treatment, but today we want to focus on our holistic patient and family care approach, and how this sets us...
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...
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...
Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure describes how a patient, who had relied on Vascular Wellness to achieve vascular access numerous times over almost nine years due to her complex medical issues and difficult IV access condition, passed away not alone, but...
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,...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Hospital Emergency Department where the patient needed vascular access to commence the sepsis protocol of treatment. Unfortunately, the patient was not only dehydrated but...
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...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Skilled Nursing Facility where the patient needed a vascular access device placed for IV antibiotic therapy. The facility contacted Vascular Wellness to place a PICC line....
