Martha: Vascular Access CNS

Martha is a vascular access clinical nurse specialist you can ask at the bedside. Built by Vascular Access & Consulting — a mobile team that places PICCs, midlines and ultrasound-guided IVs in skilled nursing, long-term care and home settings every day — Martha answers the questions nurses actually face, grounded in the published standards and cited. ASK HER ANYTHING VASCULAR • Device selection: midline vs PICC vs peripheral IV, and why • Medication compatibility: pH, osmolarity, vesicant status • Occlusions, resistance, no blood return — what to do and what never to do • CLABSI prevention, hub scrub, dressing changes, ANTT • PICC in CKD: eGFR, vein preservation, KDOQI and Fistula First • MAGIC criteria and where the evidence has moved since 2015 • Scope-of-practice questions (RN vs LPN/LVN) — and when to check your state act GROUNDED, NOT GENERIC Martha's answers draw on the INS…