What is it about?
Vessel Health and Preservation is a model representing a systems approach to managing the intravenous therapy needs of the patient most efficiently. Efficiency is represented in each quadrant and core components, all designed to gain the best patient outcomes and optimize cost control within acute care.
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Why is it important?
Healthcare and treatment of patient conditions is costly and carries high risk to the patient of hospital acquired infections. Application of recommendations, standards and guidelines results in the best outcomes for patients. With so much information and busy lives, clinicians have difficulty keeping up,hospital policies are often outdated and the patient suffers. The VHP approach combines best practices into a process that educates the clinician and provides standard work to replace crisis management often present in today’s hospitals.
Perspectives
Vessel Health and Preservation is my life work. Safeguarding the patient experience, improving first stick success, and ensuring solid understanding of management practices for clinicians is what I would want for every healthcare system and every patient. We must make vascular Access a priority and take steps to improve the delivery and management in order to achieve the level of safety expected by patients and needed to run a Lean process in healthcare.
Dr. Nancy L Moureau
Griffith University
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This page is a summary of: Vessel Health and Preservation: a model and clinical pathway for using vascular access devices, British Journal of Nursing, April 2018, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2018.27.8.s28.
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