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Course Description

Introduction

Overview of Catheter Flushing

Current Guidelines

Clinical Issues with Heparin

Side Effects of Heparin Lock Solution

Costs

Potential Alternative Locking Solutions

Clinical Decisions

References

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Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI has more than 35 years experience in infusion nursing and adult education. She is president of Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc., an education and consulting company started in 1996
She has authored more than 65 published articles on infusion therapy and vascular access including nursing care of all types of catheters, infusion and vascular access complication management such as bloodstream infection and infiltration and extravasation, and legal and regulatory issues. She has contributed numerous regular columns to the Journal of Vascular Access Devices and Nursing99 through Nursing 2009. She has also written 8 textbook chapters, with the most recent contributions being the chapters on Anatomy and Physiology Related to Infusion Therapy and Infusion Therapy Equipment in Infusion Nursing- An Evidence-based Approach, the textbook published through the Infusion Nurses Society. She currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Infusion Nursing and Nursing 2010.

She has served as director-at-large and president of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA). Most recently, she is a member of the INS Standards of Practice committee, charged with revision of that document. She was recognized as the INS Member of the Year in 2007; authored award-winning articles in Nursing2005; received the Reader’s Choice Award from the Journal of Vascular Access Devices in 2003; and was a member of the group receiving the award for Excellence in IV Nursing Research from INS in 1992.

 

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