Education Resources

Speaker: Matthew Ostroff, MSN, AGACNP, VA-BC

Description: The content of this presentation includes a definition and discussion regarding healthcare equity focusing on intravenous access. After receiving the grant associated with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Award for Innovation our hospital decided to focus on this inequity by providing near infrared light to all nurses to assist with phlebotomy and peripheral intravenous access from the NICU to the ICU in an urban 700 bed trauma center. Pre-implementation and post-implementation data will be presented including discussion surrounding the training for implementation. Interviews from both the patients and nursing staff will be shared discussing healthcare inequity and the impact of infrared technology for peripheral phlebotomy and intravenous access for all patient populations.

Learning objectives:

1. Define healthcare equity and how it applies to vascular access.
2. By the end of this presentation the participant will be able to describe the universality of applying infrared vein finding technology on all patients.
3. Take away a healthcare initiative aimed at providing improved vascular access care for all patient populations.
4. The participant will be able to present the concept that providing added technology to front line clinicians expands the reach of their vascular access program.
5. The participant will be able to fully understand the concept of NO BLIND STICKS Nursing as a continuing education provider.

To log in and view the webinar visit the following links:

• CE version
  Contact Hours: This session has been approved for 1 contact hour. The Association for Vascular Access is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing as a continuing education provider. Number CEP12371

Please note: You will need to log in to the Association for Vascular Access website either as an AVA member or create a free guest account before proceeding to the webinar video on AVA Academy.  The path is Education/Course Catalog/On-line Store/Academic Webinar. At this point, you will then be able to add the webinar to your cart. For questions or assistance, please contact the Association for Vascular Access at AVA@AVAINFO.ORG or Tel: 1-877-924-AVA1 (2821); Direct: 1-801-792-9079

Speakers: Thomas Hopkins, MD, Gregory J. Schears, MD and Kasey Wiseman, RN

Description: In this webinar, Drs. Hopkins and Schears will discuss how vein visualization technology has dramatically shifted the landscape of vascular access assessment how its evidence supports its use in clinical practice. Kasey Wiseman, RN from the PediNeoSIG will be sharing her insight on vein visualization and how it is used as a successful strategy for our pediatric patients.

Learning objectives:

1. Summarize the AVA’s ’No Blind Sticks’ Policy
2. Discuss the use of vein visualization as an assessment tool to facilitate improved patient satisfaction.
3. Summarize how vein visualization can be used to improve provider resilience

To log in and view the webinar visit the following links:

• CE version
  Contact Hours: This session has been approved for 1 contact hour.
• Non-CE version

Please note: You will need to log in to the Association for Vascular Access website either as an AVA member or create a free guest account before proceeding to the webinar video on AVA Academy. At this point, you will then be able to add the webinar to your cart. For questions or assistance, please contact the Association for Vascular Access at AVA@AVAINFO.ORG or Tel: 1-877-924-AVA1 (2821); Direct: 1-801-792-9079

Speakers: Thomas Hopkins, MD, Gregory J. Schears, MD

Description: Traditional peripheral venous IV access does not involve patient’s needs or venous target assessment leading to poor planning, suboptimal site choice, repetitive sticks, increased costs, and patient/ clinician frustration. NIR vein visualization technology removes the guess work and gives the clinician more information to make better venous site/ device choices to preserve vessel health, increase first attempt success and extend catheter indwell.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the importance of how pre-access venous assessment is improving vein choices and reducing complications.
2. Review efforts to adopt NIR vein visualization technology to improve practice.
3. Describe how NIR venous assessment improves workflow, reduces costs and promotes best practice.

To log in and view the webinar visit the following links:

• Non-CE version

Please note: You will need to log in to the Association for Vascular Access website either as an AVA member or create a free guest account before proceeding to the webinar video on AVA Academy. At this point, you will then be able to add the webinar to your cart. For questions or assistance, please contact the Association for Vascular Access at AVA@AVAINFO.ORG or Tel: 1-877-924-AVA1 (2821); Direct: 1-801-792-9079

July 19, 2022

Guests include Dr. Tom Hopkins, Tom Sutton, Cheryl Wozniak, Blake Hotchkiss and Judy Thompson.

The guests discuss the state of PIV insertion and the use of visualization technologies; chiefly near-infrared (NIR).

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• Development of a Real-time Vascular Access Dashboard: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Understand Use of Vein Visualization Technology and Enhance Patient Care
• Effectiveness of Near-infrared Vein Visualization Technology in Patients with Potentially Difficult Intravenous Access
• Impact of Near-infrared Vein Visualization Technology on Costs Associated with Peripheral Intravenous Access: Development of a Return on Investment Model
• Use of Near-infrared Vein Visualization Technology to Improve Peripheral Intravenous Assessment and Catheter Placement in an Emergency Department

• Near Infrared Technology for Improved Peripheral Venous Assessment and Intravenous Catheter Placement: A Clinical Technology Implementation Model