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ForwardVenous Access 1.0 May 23, 2024
This course was designed to improve staff's competence and knowledge on PIVC insertion and venipunctures.
Target Audience
Registered Nurses
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the learner will be able to:
- List considerations of proper vascular access device planning in the neonatal and pediatric patient
- Demonstrate proper patient assessment and pre-procedural preparation for peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) in the neonatal and pediatric patient
- Describe and demonstrate the use of transillumination for the insertion of PIVCs
- Demonstrate proper care and maintenance for PIVCs in neonatal and pediatric patients
- Describe the most common PIVC complications and prevention strategies
Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3.5 contact hour(s).
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 3.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 3.50 Attendance