Outpatient Services, at a high level meaning health care provided without a hospital admittance, has been growing rapidly in the healthcare field and this is due to increasing new technologies like advanced imaging, virtual and remote care, telehealth, and mobile...
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...
Complex COVID patient needs more access describes how the Vascular Access clinician evaluated a COVID patient, advocated a creative and clinically appropriate solution for multiple points of access, and created such access achieving the best outcome feasible, and is...
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...
Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV Sticks and no vascular access and how the Vascular Access clinician was able to calm the patient down and achieve Peripheral IV (PIV) access is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Patient with 14 Failed Peripheral IV...
Internal Jugular Line and Vasopressors describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to timely place an Internal Jugular (IJ) line in a critical patient on vasopressors and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Internal...
Internal Jugular Line When Upper Arm Infection describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to assess the patient’s clinical history and choose the safer and more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access...
Mastectomy and PICC Line can be Unsafe Combination describes how the Vascular Access clinician consulted with the patient’s physician to revise the physician’s order from a PICC Line to the more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) Line and is the focus of...
A patient with a tunneled catheter fracture and how the Vascular Access clinician removed the tunneled catheter at the patient’s bedside even though tunneled catheters are generally under the purview of doctors is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action....
