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Vascular Access Policy Bundle Development [virtual]
Vascular access literature continues to illustrate considerable variation in vascular access practices and outcomes. This variability continues to negatively impact patient safety and health care costs. The root causes for inconsistent practice are challenging, including inconsistent vascular access resources, inadequate competency development, varied product selection, and policies that do not reflect evidence-based guidelines. The nursing executive council of a large health care system approved the creation of a corporate vascular access collaborative composed of vascular access experts across the system. Their priority assignment was development and deployment of a corporate vascular access policy bundle to facilitate standardization of policy and clinical practice. This session will describe the process used to identify current state of vascular access policies, to engage clinicians across the system in policy development, to gain multidisciplinary policy consensus, and to successfully deploy the policy bundle across a large health care system.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify essential components of system-wide vascular access policy development.
- Describe processes to promote clinician engagement in creation of a system-wide policy bundle.
- Identify implementation strategies to successfully deploy a corporate vascular access policy bundle across multiple divisions.
Contact Hours: 1
CRNI® RUs: 2
Barb Nickel, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CRNI®
Barb Nickel is a clinical nurse specialist at a health care center in Nebraska. She is responsible for staff development, competency assessment, and process improvement to optimize outcomes in multiple areas of clinical practice, including critical care, infusion therapy, sepsis, and new graduate transition to practice. Barb has presented nationally on infusion-related topics, is a coauthor of the 2021 Infusion Nurses Society Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, is the chair of the INS Standard of Practice Committee for the 2024, 9th edition of the Standards, and has authored several publications on infusion therapy in the critical care setting. She also serves as faculty in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, in areas of critical care and chronic illness.
Alison Rich Mason, MS, RN
Alison Rich Mason serves as the system director, professional practice, providing oversight and leadership for nursing practice for CommonSpirit Health, Patient Care Services. In her current role, she provides facilitation and oversight in the management of clinical practice. Alison is also the system lead for CommonSpirit’s Nursing Professional Practice Council. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at national and international conferences on evidence-based practice and clinical informatics. Her interview with Health Leaders on strategies for implementation of an online knowledge resource across a large health system was published in 2017. She holds bachelor’s degrees in art and nursing, and a master’s of science degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Colorado, Denver.
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