New Blog on Vineet Chopra: The #Michigan Risk Score for #PICC DVT - now being validated in Brazil! The scoop from Professor Eneida Rejane Rabelo da Silva and team! improvepicc.com/blog AVATAR Group Association for Vascular Access InfusionNursesSoc HQ Infusion Nurse ivWatch AustVASociety

>40,000 PIVCs, 416 hospitals, 51 countries, plenty of improvements to be made. Let's get to work! journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/artic… Evan Alexandrou OMGstudy @graybarruel Prof Claire Rickard Laura Alberto Frances Lin Pete Carr Niall Higgins Steve Frost

We have to talk about PIVCs - Global OMG Study shows many areas for improvement Use of Short Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes Worldwide journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/artic…

Epidemiology and microbiology of peripheral line–associated bloodstream infection (PLABSI) wp.me/pzvgQ-flQ IVTEAM #ivteam #ivteam IVTEAM

My fellow Hospitalists: Think about this when you write for NaCl @ 125/hr (and no stop date or time). Carlina Hakeem Today's Hospitalist

Samantha Keogh RN PhD explains why you shouldn’t #rushyourflush (pay attention to the catheter tip and where it ends up!) AVATAR Group Association for Vascular Access InfusionNursesSoc HQ

Amazing Intravenous Nursing New Zealand conference held in Rotorua, follow the MAGIC with Dr Vineet Chopra

#IVNNZ conference #MAGIC

Not Quite Michigan MAGIC, but almost

IT'S HERE!!! Our brilliant new eBook on Antimicrobial Stewardship is now available to download. What's more, it's FREE. Register here to DO IT BY THE BOOK! bsac.org.uk/antimicrobial-… #StopSuperbugs #AMR

Michigan HMS March Collaborative Wide meeting underway! Anna Conlon HMS statistician presenting our new performance assessment model for our hospitals #PICC #antimicrobialuse #midlines

New Pete Carr Cochrane Review highlights evidence gap for vascular access experts/teams to improve patient experience/outcomes. RCTs badly needed. #EENursing bit.ly/2FW3vRL ACIPC ACSQHC Association for Vascular Access 🎀MarilynCruickshank🌈 @acn_tweet QNMU CNSA @MenziesHealth

New Zealand Nurses, join Intravenous Nursing New Zealand, look for the webpage, ivnnz.co.nz

Mark your calendars! HMS will be hosting a #Midline Use Webinar - 6/6/18 from 4-5pm EST to assist with #quality #improvement work for #midline use in patients. Use the link to Register - register.gotowebinar.com/register/28369…

Some magic at Michigan!#keepingitsafe #mindfulmedcine x.com/HMS_MI/status/…

New Zealand Nurses -CVAD workshop in Auckland 25th May, register now, ivnnz.co.nz

Risky business: PICC use < 5d remains linked to complications including #VTE, occlusion and #CLABSI. Great work by @Davidpaje27 infectioncontroltoday.com/clabsi/risky-b…

Failure to wash hands contaminates tourniquets not contamination from patient skin ivteam.com/intravenous-li…

Targeted efforts are necessary to decrease short-term #PICC use to avoid associated complications. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29377971 #HMSVisualAbstract #VisualAbstract #HMS #vascularaccess AustVASociety Association for Vascular Access Society for Vascular Medicine | SVM Journal of Hospital Medicine

Calling all Australian #paediatric #nursing researchers - we want to know about YOU! What are you researching? What are your priorities? Please take the time to complete this short survey prodsurvey.rcs.griffith.edu.au/PNRA #whywedoresearch 🎀MarilynCruickshank🌈 Professor Fenella Gill Prof Dr Lyvonne Tume RN