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...
Vascular Access for Surgical Rehabilitation Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 30
Vascular Access for Surgical Rehabilitation Patient describes how an expert Vascular Access clinician identified co-morbidities in a clinically complex post-surgical patient and worked with the medical team to obtain safe, appropriate vascular access needed to address...
Rapid Response and Life-Saving Vascular Access
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice demonstrates how having a vascular access team with a rapid response provides life-saving vascular access. This Wellness Wednesday case is about a teen patient who suffered life-threatening bilateral arm amputation in an accident...
Clotted Fistula Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Nurse Clinicians in Action Clotted Fistula Patient Case. In this clinical case, a patient’s fistula clotted in the middle of dialysis and required emergent temporary dialysis access. The patient was recovering...
Nurse-placed Dialysis Catheters at the Bedside
Patients with acute or chronic kidney disease can need different types of Dialysis Catheters – Acute/Temp Vascaths and Tunneled Permcaths. Having a skilled partner who can perform these procedures as soon as they are clinically indicated, without delay – and at the patient’s bedside – can improve patient outcomes and decrease hospital and patient costs significantly.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Case that describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician notices an atrial fibrillation episode while placing a PICC line in an anxious quadruple...