When Dr. Kerry Kennedy, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, ACHPN, VA-BC™, started her journey as an LVN working on a cardiac step-down unit in 2001, she quickly figured out how integral vascular access was to almost every aspect of health care. “Back in the day, if you didn’t know how to start your own IVs, your workday […]

When Turena Reeves, BSN, RN, VA-BC™, applied for a job as a vascular access nurse in the 1970s, she thought it would be an easy job while she raised her kids. After all, she thought, what is so difficult about getting a call, inserting a line, and leaving the room? “How wrong I was,” she […]

In early 2020, Jackie Lutes, BSN, RN, CPN, VA-BC™, took up her pen and wrote a children’s booklet to make getting a vascular access device easier for her pediatric patients. While working the evening shifts on her vascular access team, Jackie Lutes noticed that not all pediatric patients had the same experience when it came […]