Announcing the Infection Prevention in Vascular Access Webinar Series
This webinar series — brought to you by Healthcare Hygiene magazine — examinines imperatives related to vascular access within an infection prevention context and offers 2 contact hours of continuing education for nurses .
( Keystone Media Inc ./ Healthcare Hygiene magazine - CEP 17500 - is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nurses ).
Now Available
Improving the Quality and Patient Safety of Peripheral Intravenous Catheter ( PIVC ) Insertions Using Evidence-Based Data
Meet the Presenter :
Lee Steere , RN , CRNI , VA-BC , has worked as a registered nurse for 23 years and has worked as the unit leader for IV therapy services at Hartford Hospital for the last 15 years . He has been a member of his healthcare institution ’ s HAI committee since 2007 , and also serves as co-chair of the hospital ’ s clinical quality value analysis committee . He has addressed the topics of LEAN IV therapy , CLABSI prevention , and CVAD occlusion management at local and national meetings of INS and AVA , as well as published papers on vascular accessrelated imperatives in medical journals .
Learning objectives :
1 . Review how to achieve IV success through a lean process to improve patient satisfaction .
2 . Discuss data collection to support a cultural change in the way IVs are approached .
3 . Define a business case relating to the importance of improving IV therapy .
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Coming in November
Patient Safety and Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral IV Placement : The Need for Standardized Practices
Meet the presenter :
Nancy Moureau , RN , PhD , CRNI , CPUI , VA- BC , CEO , PICC Excellence
Point-of-care ultrasound scanners are changing healthcare delivery in many specialties . Now in use in a wide variety of clinical environments , advanced ultrasound devices are being applied to guide many interventional procedures — including the placement of peripheral vascular access devices received by more than 70 percent of hospitalized patients . Within all hospital departments , however , clinical practice and the application of safety measures for the use of such ultrasound technologies have struggled to keep up . Slow adoption of guidelines and the publication of conflicting recommendations from a number of professional associations have allowed wide variations in clinical practice and differing approaches to protecting end-users and their patients . This webcast will examine how lack of standardization and consequent variations in clinical practice can impact the safety profile of institutions using ultrasoundguided protocols , and how performance improvement initiatives with standardized policies , processes , procedures , and education can help to create a culture of safety across the healthcare continuum .
This webinar will address : 1 . Application of Guidelines for UGPIV Placement 2 . Survey Reveals Variations in UGPIV Practices 3 . A Multidisciplinary Approach to Patient Safety
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