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Webinar:

Caring for the Patient with a Central Vascular Access Device (CVAD): the Basics and Beyond

A Special Webinar Event in collaboration with the Infusion Nurses Society (INS) featuring an Extended Question and Answer Panel with INS Clinical Leaders.

Clinicians in various sites of care are encouraged to participate in this special webinar event featuring an extended question and answer panel with the nationally known speaker, Melissa Leone, RN, BSN, Director of Nursing Operations, Coram Specialty Infusion Services and INS clinical leaders.

This program will provide an understanding of the resources that are available for development of evidence-based central vascular access device (CVAD) care and maintenance protocols. The attendee will be guided through a series of CVAD care and maintenance practices that are proven to reduce the incidence of catheter complications. Educational strategies will be shared, for both the patient and the caregiver/clinician.

The panelists will welcome questions from all viewers during the extended Question and Answer session following Melissa's presentation. View Panelists

This presentation lasts about an hour and fifteen minutes.

Speaker

Melissa Leone, RN, BSN, Director of Nursing Operations, Coram Specialty Infusion Services. She has been working in the Home Infusion Industry for over 19 years, in a series of nursing and operational management roles. Prior to joining the home infusion industry, Melissa worked in the Neuro-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital for seven years. Her combined critical care and home infusion experience has provided her with a well-rounded understanding of the strategies necessary to ensure positive outcomes for CVCs, from both the clinician and patient/caregiver perspective.

Melissa currently chairs the National Home Infusion Association Education Committee. She has previously spoken nationally at NHIA on the topics of Patient and Referral Source Satisfaction, Disease Management Programs, Handling Hazardous Pharmaceuticals and Nurse Zoning. She has also spoken nationally at INS on the subjects of Patient Satisfaction, Medicare Part D, and Catheter Outcomes in Home Infusion, the latter of which she also published in the Journal of Infusion Nursing in March 2008. Melissa assisted with the development of the NIOSH Alert on Handling Hazardous Drugs, and has co-authored several smaller documents for NIOSH on the subject of Safe Handling.

Session Learning Objectives and Content Highlights

1. Discuss resources that are available to assist with development of institutional protocols for central vascular access device (CVAD) care and maintenance.
2. Describe at least three measures used to prevent infections related to CVADs.
3. Explain the role of education of personnel and patients in preventing infections in patients with a CVAD.