Learning Session
Vascular Access: Networking for Solutions Handouts
"Vascular Access Management Tools for QAPI Success"
Attendees of all three educational sessions: Community Partnering, Patient Culture and Catheter Reduction received hanouts for:
Patient Education
- Introductory ArterioVenous Fistula
- Frequently Asked Questions For Patients and Families
- Ease the Ouch
- How Do I Look?
- Don’t Be Clueless
- TLC Your Access
- Choosing Your Hemodialysis Vascular Access
- Dialysis Needle Fear: Easing the Sting
- Conquering Your Fistula Fear
- Doppler Studies & Vessel Mapping
- Your Access Care Pocket Guide
- Self-Cannulation of Vascular Access Procedure Example
Staff Education
- Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
Minutes of the Meeting [Word document, 160KB] [PDF, 208KB]
Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Minutes of the Meeting Without Data Grid [Word document, 45KB] [PDF, 23KB] - Vascular Access Root Cause Analysis Tool
- AV Fistula Barriers Questionnaire
- Catheter Assessment Tool/Algorithm
- Dialysis Facility Action Steps
- 90-day Count Down! Planning for Catheter Removal!
- Catheter Reduction Tool for Facilities
- Vascular Access Type Utilization Collection Form
- Buttonhole Cannulation Skills Checklist
- Fistula Maturation Protocol
- Clamp Usage Policy and Procedure
- What Professionals Can Do to Maximize AVF as Primary Access
- AVF Quick Reference
- AV Fistula Failure-to-Mature Scan
- Checklist of Indications for Hemodialysis Catheter Use
- Reducing Central Venous Catheter Infections
- Evaluate Every AV Graft Patient for Possible Secondary AVF: Change Concept 6
- Secondary AV Fistula in Patients with A-V Grafts
- Sleeves Up Checklist
- Sample Referral Letter to a Surgeon
- Draft Letter to PCP From Nephrologist
Attendees of the Patient Culture session received the following additional tools:
- AV Fistula - Placement Readiness (Sample Case Studies)
- AV Fistula – Placement Readiness Assessment Form
- AV Fistula – Placement Decision Worksheet
- CQI ACTION PLAN—Fistula Patient Coaching Program (Example)
- CQI ACTION PLAN—Fistula Patient Coaching Program (Blank Form)
- CQI ACTION PLAN—Helping Patients Make Healthy Fistula Choices (Example)
- CQI ACTION PLAN—Helping Patients Make Healthy Fistula Choices (Blank Form)