Rapid Fire Session- Clinical Skills

104A Ostomy Accessories: So Many Choices!
The bedside nurse is faced with a wide and often confusing variety of choices in ostomy pouches and accessories. Most ostomates, whether new or established, have received ostomy education and information from a variety of sources, sometimes leading to contradictory, overuse, and misuse of pouch accessories. In addition, what each facility has available may differ from what the patient uses or feels they need to use. This presentation will provide a brief overview of commonly available ostomy accessories and how and when to use them, as well as tools to make the best accessory choice (if needed) for the appropriate situation and help identify accessory over/inappropriate use.

104B Identifying a Vein’s Personality: Helpful Tips for Improving Peripheral IV Insertion
Peripheral IV (PIV) insertion continues to be a source of fear and anxiety for novice and experienced nurses alike. Success of PIV insertion can also make or break a patient’s experience, compounding the stress of the experience for many nurses. Beyond the basic steps on insertion taught in nursing schools, there is a lack of education and guidance for nurses trying to hone their PIV insertion skills, especially when IV access is not straightforward or for nurses who start IVs infrequently. Creativity and innovation are necessary to give nurses the next best thing to experience — practical knowledge from nurses who are experts at PIV starts, presented in a relatable and easy-to-access set of tips and tricks that nurses can employ in the field. This presentation will give nurses a toolbox in which to draw from when approaching a difficult IV start with easily accessible videos that are shareable with the use of QR codes.

104C Building a Bridge: Overcoming Gaps to Safe Intravenous Push Medication Administration
In this session, nurses will learn how to support best practices and align with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ (ISMP) recommendations for adult intravenous (IV) push medication administration. Information will be presented on how one organization gathered a group of nurse-led multidisciplinary colleagues and collaborated to review and address gaps in knowledge, work through supply chain issues, and create education modules to improve practice and patient safety.

Recording expiration date: 09/14/2026

80% of participants who complete the evaluation will indicate that as a result of viewing this session, they have gained new knowledge or validated their current medical-surgical practice.

Criteria for successful completion:

• View the entire recorded session
• Complete the evaluation

Relevant Financial Relationships:

• There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those with the ability to control the content of this activity.

The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses expresses appreciation to Medtronic for their support of this educational activity as premier partner and for providing a sponsored lunch session during the live event on Friday, September 13, 2024.

Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.