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Take your PICC: New guide aims to decrease dangers from long-term IV devices

Posted on by Mary Smith

This is a great read for all of us.  Like the “MAGIC” We are much more than PICC nurses.  We are the experts in vascular access device selection.  Our collegues look at the “PICC” nurse as the expert.  We need

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AVA 2015

Posted on by Mary Smith

Had a great time at AVA in Dallas TX.  The entire crew did a great job with the event.  Education opportunities were excellent.  I had a hard time deciding which ones to attend!  Thanks Dr. Mauro Pittiruti for sharing slides and

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Preventing complications by proper securement

Posted on by Mary Smith

Securing VAD’s (vascular access devices) of all types is key to preventing complications.  When we don’t have good securement catheters move at the insertion site.  We use words like migration, piston, dislodgment to describe these events.  These events lead to

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Health care workers’ knowledge and practices regarding the prevention of central venous catheter-related infection

Posted on by Mary Smith

Copied from the AJIC January, 1st, 2015 Sameer A. Alkubati, PhD, RN , Nadia T. Ahmed, PhD, RN , Osama N.E. Mohamed, PhD , Akram M. Fayed, PhD , Hayam I. Asfour, PhD, RN Published Online: November 20, 2014 Background Central

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Great article on the affordable care act

Posted on by Mary Smith

Click on this link:  affordable care act. This is a great read!  Thank you for sharing  

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Intraosseous EZ-IO Access Seminar

Posted on by Mary Smith

Join CVC Health Care tonight at an event held by WISVAN, the Wisconsin chapter of the Association for Vascular Access. Visit Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar for refreshments and “Arrow Vascular: Right Line for the Right Patient at the Right

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INS Webinar

Posted on by Mary Smith

Enhancing Accountable Care Through Improved CLABSI Outcomes, a webinar presented by the Infusion Nurses Society, is being offered April 29, 2015 from 12-1 p.m. The free webinar will focus on the Affordable Care Act and the way it’s changing the

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Reducing HAI’s by focusing on caregivers skin

Posted on by Mary Smith

A huge improvement has been found in the rate of CLABSI and SSI as well as some progress on hospital onset MRSA bacteremia and C. difficle infections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a study from 2011

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Learning Curve for IV Nurses Using Ultrasound Guided Access

Posted on by Mary Smith

Information copied from: The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access Volume 20, #1. Spring 2015. Mark J. Ault, MD Ryoko Tanabe, MSN, FNP-C Bradley T. Rosen, MD, MBA, FHM            Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles,

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Implementation of Ethanol Lock Therapy in Peds Patient Reduces Risk of CLABSI

Posted on by Mary Smith

Information copied from: The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access Volume 19, #4. Winter 2014. Stephanie Pitts, MSN, RN, CPN, VA-BC Dale Bergamo, MD Carlos Cartaya, MD          St Joseph’s Children’t Hospital, Tampa, FL Beth Gore,