Tag Archives: patient outcomes
Best Practice for reducing pain with placing the PIV
I had an opportunity to review some of our patient satisfaction surveys. It wasn’t surprising to me that many concerns were about the peripheral IV insert. One patient even stated “It was the most painful thing I ever had
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Tagged Educating, evidenced based practice, patient outcomes, Peripheral IV, vascular access devices
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Leading the team
When we look at best practice, improving patient outcomes, implementing evidenced based protocols in the insertion, care and maintenance of vascular access devices, we have to look at nurses to be the leaders. Nurses are becoming the coordinators, leaders, teachers,
VAD class at Blackhawk Technical College
A big thank you to the nursing students at Blackhawk Technical College. Today we discussed many topics related to Vascular Access Devices. With all the different types of catheters, connectors and caps in our facilities, it is very difficult
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Tagged evidenced based practice, midlines, neutral connectors, Nursing teams, patient outcomes, PICC lines, reduce crbsi's
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