Vascular Access Education
Vascular Access Education and training by Vascular Wellness® is a comprehensive and unique program that empowers nurses and advances healthcare. Our Vascular Access Education and training courses are taught by practicing and certified Vascular Access clinicians (not just educators), giving all students an exceptional educational experience. The courses incorporate best practices, national guidelines, and practical experience across various healthcare settings. Our participants get classroom and hands-on experience and upon course certification, are able to apply and use their training. We bring our training to you and customize it to your healthcare setting, equipment, and supplies. Hiring Vascular Wellness for your education and training needs is the smart and safe choice.
Empowering Nurses
and Advancing Healthcare is our vision & passion
Vascular Access Nurse Education
Vascular Access Nurse Education is available from and provided by our practicing Vascular Access nurse clinicians. Our Education includes training and through our course offerings, you will build your knowledge and clinical skills. Continuing education classes are available live, either virtually or on-site. We bring training straight to the client – to the specific healthcare setting and location. We customize our training to the participant’s skill level, and a client’s equipment, supplies, and policies.
Vascular Access Nurse Education includes a variety of content, including classroom, simulation, and hands-on opportunities. Our education also consists of skills verification by a preceptor to validate compliance with our competencies. Unlike other companies that provide education courses only in a classroom setting, that require you to travel to them, or whose courses are taught by trainers and not practicing nurse clinicians, our courses provide participants with the comprehensive and convenient training they need to be successful.
Empowering nurses through our unique education and training program is a significant component of our vision of Advancing Healthcare.
Empowering Nurses through Vascular Access Nurse Education
See below for Vascular Access Education Course details
Vascular Access Education Courses
Central Line Identification Training Course
Central Line Care and Maintenance Training Course
Central Line Dressing Change Training Course
Central Line Patency and Restoration Training Course
Basic IV Access and Insertion Training Course
Advanced IV Access and Insertion Training Course
Parenteral Nutrition Administration Training Course
Peripheral Venous Access (PIV) for Nuclear Medicine Training Course
Empowering Nurses through Vascular Access Education
Central Line Identification and Care & Maintenance Courses
Central Line Identification Course
Vascular Access Nurse Education – In our Central Line Identification Course, identify what type of central line the patient has before it is accessed to improve patient outcomes. Learn how to accurately identify central lines:
- Overview of the latest in-market central venous access devices and configuration
- How to identify the access device
- Best practice guidelines to care for the patient
Central Line Care and Maintenance Course
Empowering Nurses through Vascular Access Education – In this Central Line Care and Maintenance Course, learn how to carefully and properly maintain central access devices to minimize infection risk. Learn proper techniques for a safe, sterile complication-free dressing change:
- Overview of flushing guidelines
- How to troubleshoot clogged or clotted lines
- How to determine and address catheter positioning
- How to assess symptoms of central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI)
- How to implement Centers for Disease Control recommended Central-Line care Bundles
- How to reduce accidental pull outs, develop a bundle and select products for optimal central line care
Empowering Nurses through Vascular Access Education
Central Line Dressing Change and Patency & Restoration Courses
Central Line Dressing Change Course
Empowering Nurses through Vascular Access Education – Our Dressing Change Course will educate you on how to implement strict measures to effectively manage risk. Learn how to properly perform central line dressing changes:
- Overview of dressings supporting optimized catheter function
- How to determine and identify what supplies are important
- How to use a dressing to decrease the chance of infection
Central Line Patency and Restoration Course
Vascular Access Nurse Education – In our Central Venous Access Device Patency Restoration Course, address and solve a variety of central line scenarios. Learn how to troubleshoot issues surrounding central line patency:
- Overview of flushing guidelines, drug compatibility, and proper line positioning for line patency
- Troubleshooting various issues including central line not flushing or does not have blood return
IV Access Education
Basic IV and Advanced IV Access Courses
Basic IV Access and Insertion Course
IV Access Education: In Basic IV Insertion – IV Access Training Course, become confident and proficient in starting intravenous lines with this IV Insertion Course, as part of your IV Access Education:
- Overview of proper vein and catheter selection
- How to use various catheter types
- How to use devices safely
- How to safely secure the peripheral intravenous line
Advanced IV Access and Insertion Course
IV Access Education: In Advanced IV Insertion Course, take IV skills to the next level to increase Press-Ganey patient satisfaction scores. Learn fine-tuning IV insertion skills with this Advanced IV Insertion Course and gain vascular access in challenging situations, as part of your IV Access Education:
- How to use an ultrasound to visualize and select a vein to aid in venous cannulation
- How to reduce multiple needle sticks
TPN and PPN Administration Vascular Access Education
Parenteral Nutrition Administration Course
Parenteral Nutrition Administration Course
TPN and PPN Administration Education – In our TPN and PPN Administration Course, gain insights into managing the patient’s overall well-being during vascular access. In this continuing Vascular Access Nurse Education course, you will learn the important factors surrounding intravenous nutrition:
- Overview of administering TPN through central access, including best practice guidelines
- Understand the key differences between TPN and PPN
- How to make an effective catheter selection
- How to ensure proper TPN delivery, including risk identification and management
PIV Vascular Access for Nuclear Medicine Education
Peripheral Venous Access for Nuclear Medicine Course
Peripheral Venous Access (PIV) for Nuclear Medicine Course
In our Peripheral Venous Access for Nuclear Medicine Course, you will gain confidence and proficiency in starting intravenous lines and as a result, decreasing radiopharmaceutical extravasations that result from poor IV access techniques. In this continuing Vascular Access Nurse Education course you will learn:
- Overview of the proper vein and catheter selection
- Understand how to use various catheter types & how to use devices safely
- How to safely secure the peripheral intravenous line
- How to reduce multiple needle sticks
- How to use ultrasound for needle visualization and vein selection (if available)
In addition, the course will cover how to identify and treat nuclear extravasations, as well as a clinical review of nuclear extravasations cases, to help students understand their critical role in the practice of safe and effective nuclear medicine.
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VASCULAR ACCESS EXPERTS
As Vascular Access Experts, Vascular Wellness nurse clinicians are Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC), insured, skill-verified, and salaried W2 employees. Vascular Wellness requires bi-annual skill verification ensuring adherence to proprietary policies, procedures, competencies, and best practices. We focus on holistic and comprehensive care and do not follow the pay per procedure model plus performance bonuses used by others that may create some adverse incentives for speed at the bedside versus holistic medical care helping to ensure the placement of the right line at the right time, the first time. In fact, Vascular Wellness employs a Director of Research and Development who not only helps us stay up to date on best practices but helps us continue to innovate and improve upon Vascular Access Services.
Vascular Access Experts practice holistic medical care, meaning talking to the patient, addressing questions and fears, and performing a comprehensive medical review. Prior to delivering any Vascular Access procedure, the Vascular Wellness clinician reviews the patient’s medical record, including history and lab reports, and independently verifies and confirms the doctor’s order. If our clinician has questions or disagrees with the prescribing doctor, the clinician will consult with the doctor. Our Vascular Access Experts have earned the trust of many doctors, and such doctors will defer to the clinician’s recommendation by ordering a “consult” as compared to a specific line. Patient safety and vein preservation are critical – which is why a holistic, comprehensive evaluation and Advanced Lines are significant. Other companies claiming to be Vascular Access Experts may not follow this same approach frustrating medical doctors and nurses primarily because those 1099 Contractor PICC nurses do not place Advanced Lines (i.e, no options other than PIVs, Midlines, and PICCs) and get paid on a pay per procedure model.
In states where nurses are permitted, as Vascular Access Experts, Vascular Wellness clinicians can provide immediate X-Ray Clearance of lines when tip confirmation is not available or appropriate and X-Ray confirmation must be used. This saves money, time, and coordination with a Radiologist or other doctor and enables the lines to be used immediately to avoid delaying treatment. Quicker therapy leads to better outcomes.
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Vascular Wellnesssm provides comprehensive, quality, timely, and innovative vascular access services, including standard and advanced line placement, pediatrics, program management, education, training, and infection control and prevention to all healthcare settings such as Tertiary Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Surgical and Outpatient Centers, Hospice, and At-Home care. We support a 98+% Success Rate with zero (0) Insertion-Related Infections across all lines, with an average response time of 3 hours. We help our clients improve patient outcomes, enable faster therapy, reduce costs, infections, and readmissions, decrease hospital length of stay, and reduce transportation expenses.
Office Address
Vascular Wellness
151 Quarrystone Circle
Suite 112
Cary, NC 27519
919-226-3694
Clinical Hours for Dispatch
Service Hours extend 2+ hours after Dispatch
Monday-Friday: 8am - 6pm
Saturday-Sunday: 8am - 3pm
Holidays: 8am - 1pm