• Medication errors and their prevention
• Catheter-related bloodstream infections
• Infiltration and extravasation injuries
• Adequate documentation
• Appropriate vascular access choices
• Starting a PICC or Midline catheter program

To ensure your bedside staff remains current, there must be an individual or a group of people charged with keeping up with changes in standards of practice, published guidelines, the latest research. Then this group of people must have the time to write appropriate policies and procedures along with creating and implementing the most suitable staff development strategies. Yet which members of your staff have the available time to do this vitally needed work?

Through our consultation processes, we can provide the level of help you need. This could mean an in-depth system-wide analysis, planning and delivery of multiple interventions. It could be a continuing education class tailored to the needs of your staff. Or it could be assistance with answering questions and finding the latest information on a specific issue in the field of infusion therapy or vascular access.

Continuing education programs are available in both online formats and traditional classroom delivery.

The following are daylong seminars that could be presented in your facility:

• Peripheral IV Therapy in Adults
• PICC and Midline Catheter Insertion Course
• Vascular Access Devices: Choices and Challenges

• Advancing Your Knowledge and Skills in Infusion Therapy
• Preventing Catheter Complications
• Administering Blood Components: When, Where, and How
• Nosocomial Blood Loss, Iatrogenic Anemia and Blood Sampling
• Catheter Lumen Occlusion
• Infiltration and Extravasation: Identification and Interventions
• Techniques and Technology for Flushing Vascular Access Devices
• Infections in Vascular Access Devices: Prevention and Management
• Cardiac Tamponade and Central Venous Catheters
• Assessing Vascular Access Needs
• Antiseptics and Disinfectants: The Skin, The Hub, and Beyond
• Legal Aspects of Infusion Therapy