Vascular Access Ted-Style Talk
Michelle DeVries, MPH, CIC, VA-BC™
Senior Infection Control Officer
Methodist Hospitals
In an increasingly demanding healthcare environment that rewards providers achieving superior clinical outcomes while penalizing those who fall short, it is essential to make sure we are making the best choices when it comes to our practices, our data collection and our products. As vascular access clinicians, this means making the best decision at your patient’s bedside that will preserve their vessel health. It’s imperative to ask ourselves… Do we have the right algorithm in place? The right tools? The right practices? The right goals?
This talk grapples with the best ways to approach those questions since those answers go a long way towards ensuring your patients have improved peripheral outcomes with fewer complications. Each choice as a vascular access team matters… And the right choices create value beyond the vascular access department.