Fearful Patient and Holistic Vascular Access Care describes how a patient with needle phobia, having just been subjected to multiple unsuccessful vascular access attempts by facility staff, is comforted by the Vascular Wellness clinician who then obtains the correct...
This week we feature 2 more of our Nurse Clinicians in Action stories, Long-Term Antibiotic & Vasopressor Patient Cases. One story tells how our clinician chose the safer Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access instead of the physician’s initially...
Healthcare Outsourcing Services have become a popular way for healthcare providers or facilities such as hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, in both clinical and non-clinical areas, such as administration, to augment their internal staff or team or completely...
Central Line Nursing is the insertion, care, and maintenance of Central Line Catheters by trained nurses. Highly skilled nurse specialists typically will place the Central Lines, lines that end in a large vein above or below the heart, and other nurses will be...
Pediatric Patient Requires Compassionate Care is a Vascular Wellness clinical case story about how a pediatric patient with a complex medical history including severe infection, pneumonia, and seizures requires hospitalizations and ongoing vascular access expertise....
Midline Catheter Placement generally starts in a vein in the arm just above the elbow and remains in the peripheral vein; it does not end in a central vein or near the heart. Midline Catheter Placement is generally inserted by PICC Nurses, who are trained in...
IV Mobile describes mobile nursing companies that may provide a range of on-call, on-demand, and on-site IV Access Services. IV stands for Intravenous and is a method of delivering medication and therapies into a vein for immediate access to the bloodstream. IV...
A PICC Team consists of nurses who are skillful in inserting, maintaining, and removing PICCs and Midlines, as well as basic lines such as PIVs. Nurses on a PICC team are usually more experienced and receive more training than nurses who place basic lines. The PICC...
Femoral Line for Cavagram describes how the Vascular Access clinician chooses a more clinically appropriate and safer Femoral Line to achieve access for the patient and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Femoral Line for Cavagram – Clinical Case...
