Educational Webinars

Vascular Access is the most prevalent invasive medical procedure. It can have serious, even fatal consequences. Improving practice and patient outcomes is possible. These quick, 20-minute presentations will give you evidence-based actionable tips and resources to take back to your facility.

The goal of VAD care and maintenance is to reduce the risk of complications and preserve the device function for the duration of therapy.  Catheter site care recommendations, include dressing changes and flushing practices will be discussed.

Event Date: May 25, 2022 Length: 30 Minutes

Vascular Access is the most prevalent invasive medical procedure. It can have serious, even fatal consequences. Improving practice and patient outcomes is possible. These quick, 20-minute presentations will give you evidence-based actionable tips and resources to take back to your facility.

Device dislodgements are unacceptably high.  If you are not sufficiently paying attention to three points of securement – at the site, the dressing, and the tubing – the device is not sufficiently secure.

Original Air Date: May 11, 2022 Length: 30 Minutes

Vascular Access is the most prevalent invasive medical procedure. It can have serious, even fatal consequences. Improving practice and patient outcomes is possible. These quick, 20-minute presentations will give you evidence-based actionable tips and resources to take back to your facility.

Site selection, vein selection, device selection… oh my! We will review key VAD insertion considerations to ensure secure and reliable venous access.

Original Air Date: April 27, 2022 Length: 30 Minutes

This presentation is aimed at illustrating the relationship of dressing care and maintenance and vascular access device insertion. The proper placement of a device and subsequently the dressing plays an integral role with dressing adherence. Utilizing the evidence-based practice and available tools, dressings are capable being maintained with better clinical outcomes.

Original air date: March 30, 2022 Length: 1 Hour

The presence of a vascular access device can present a significant risk in the form of catheter-related thrombosis (CRT). The associated complications of loss of patency, occlusion and VTE, interrupt therapy and cause life threatening problems for patients. This program reviews the pathological aspects of clotting. Additionally, we explore evidence-based strategies to improve patency. The program also describes novel technology for the reduction of thrombus accumulation on PICCs and Midline catheters.

Original Air Date: February 23, 2022 Length: 1 Hour

This webinar reviews some key aspects of the 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practices and discusses the progression of a quality improvement project from concept to conference presentation to manuscript to citation in the standards and is a call to action for clinicians to share that work to help make a change in practice.

Original Air Date: January 11, 2022 Length: 1 Hour

One large, urban community hospital has been successful in bringing together unit-based staff, nursing leadership, nursing professional development, clinical nurse specialists, infection prevention, as well as industry partners – the Jamboree team – all with the shared goal of improving vascular access outcomes through routine monthly rounding. This series will break this process down into 3 short presentations with actionable take-aways.

Step 3 – ‘One and done’ is not a pathway to lasting change.This presentation will discuss why routine monitoring is important to ensure sustained results. Strategies on how to complete this efficiently will be discussed.

Live Air Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Length: 30 Minutes

One large, urban community hospital has been successful in bringing together unit-based staff, nursing leadership, nursing professional development, clinical nurse specialists, infection prevention, as well as industry partners – the Jamboree team – all with the shared goal of improving vascular access outcomes through routine monthly rounding. This series will break this process down into 3 short presentations with actionable take-aways.

Step 2 – Routine observation will highlight trends and uncover issues. However, often such issues are at the intersection of several different products. What then? An example of a pilot trial and successful intervention will be discussed.

Original Air Date: July 28, 2021 Length: 30 Minutes

Nearly all hospitalized patients can expect to receive an IV catheter during their hospital stay. It has been well-documented that IV failures and complications remain unacceptably high. Observation through bedside rounding is an effective strategy to highlight issues that improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

One large, urban community hospital has been successful in bringing together unit-based staff, nursing leadership, nursing professional development, clinical nurse specialists, infection prevention, as well as industry partners – the Jamboree team – all with the shared goal of improving vascular access outcomes through routine monthly rounding. This series will break this process down into 3 short presentations with actionable take-aways.

Step 1- Getting started is the hardest part! Establishing clear goals and objectives, roles to invite, tools, resources, scheduling considerations and more will be addressed in this brief presentation.

Original Air Date: July 14, 2021 Length: 30 Minutes

The Vascular Access Specialty Team (VAST) at Hartford Hospital has and continues to expand its services resulting in less waste, variability and better patient outcomes. In 2019, Lee and his team completed a study that integrated best in class medical devices with evidenced-based practice with each PIVC insertion. Results of this study will be discussed along with other initiatives this VAST is doing to assure they produce value that is palpable to the hospital and their patients.

Original Air Date: April 15, 2021 Length: 1 Hour

Catheter Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBSI) are a significant cause of hospital morbidity and mortality. A review of literature and Infusion Therapy Standards indicate that dressing changes due to disruption are associated with a significant risk of bloodstream infection. A quality improvement project to decrease the number of premature dressing changes due to disruption was initiated and its results, including 18-months of audit data, will be discussed.

Original Air Date: Mar 10, 2021 Length: 1 Hour

Original Air Date: Feb 24, 2021 Length: 1 Hour