Vascular access clinicians operate in a context where research evidence, guidelines, and best-practice recommendations are often widely available, yet practice and patient outcomes remain variable. This variability reflects persistent knowledge–practice gaps and the challenges health services, researchers, and clinicians face in implementing new evidence and changing established clinical practice.

This session focuses on practical methods to implement vascular access evidence into everyday practice and promote the sustained uptake over time. Using real-world case exemplars from central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) prevention and device assessment initiatives, the session will demonstrate how to embed evidence into clinical workflows, assign clear ownership, and measure fidelity and outcomes. The session will focus on actionable strategies clinicians can use in their health services to drive change through translation. 

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, learners will be able to: 
• Describe common reasons evidence fails to translate into routine vascular access practice, including workflow misalignment, lack of ownership, and inadequate measurement of fidelity
• Discuss practical implementation strategies that embed evidence into everyday vascular access workflows, including standardization, decision support, audit and feedback, and accountability structures
• Explain how to design simple but robust measurement systems (process, outcome, and balancing measures) to evaluate implementation success and support sustained practice change

CRNI® RUs: This session has been approved for 2 CRNI® recertification units and meets the non INS Meeting criteria.

Contact Hours: This session has been approved for 1 contact hour

Expiration date for receipt of contact hours: March 18, 2029

To receive contact hours for this educational activity, you are required to attend the entire educational activity and complete the evaluation.

The Infusion Nurses Society is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #CEP14209. The certificate must be retained by the attendee for a period of 4 years.