{"id":4786,"date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/2016\/05\/11\/memorials-picc-team-honored-nationally\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:07:55","slug":"memorials-picc-team-honored-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/memorials-picc-team-honored-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial\u2019s PICC team honored nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_2622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2622\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2622 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144845\/picc20team20071.webp\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144845\/picc20team20071.webp 600w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144845\/picc20team20071-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144845\/picc20team20071-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144845\/picc20team20071-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Hospital\u2019s PICC team has been recognized for extraordinary teamwork by ADVANCE magazine. The team includes, from left to right, Heather Sarkisian, Robert Villanueva, Brett Roth, Jennifer Miller, Donna Toland, Andrea Ochs, Lorri Jameson and Heike Whitaker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Memorial Hospital\u2019s PICC team received an honorable mention in the 2016 ADVANCE for Nurses Best Nursing Team Contest \u2013 an award bestowed on hospital nursing units that show extraordinary teamwork and dedication to patients.<\/p>\n<p>ADVANCE magazine recognized Memorial\u2019s PICC team after receiving an essay about the team from Lorri Jameson, the team lead for the group of five full-time and two part-time registered nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Jameson began the essay by saying that a patient\u2019s experience in the hospital can often pivot on how well the PICC team performs.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen a patient enters the emergency room or is admitted into the hospital it is likely that some type of vascular access will be needed at some time during their hospital stay. It can also be one of the biggest fears and greatest dissatisfiers that they will experience during their stay,\u2019\u2019 Jameson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The team includes Heather Sarkisian, Robert Villanueva, Brett Roth, Jennifer Miller, Donna Toland, Andrea Ochs, Heike Whitaker and Jameson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a huge impact on the hospital,\u2019\u2019 Jameson said. \u201cThey just go the extra mile to make sure that patients are taken care of.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The team members also goes out of\u00a0their way to take care of each other, and to share information about how to exceed patients\u2019 expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team is very well resourced,\u2019\u2019 said Donna Toland, clinical nurse manager. \u201cThey will often bounce ideas off of each other if they encounter a patient who presents challenges. They are thoughtful people, and it\u2019s all about the patient.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The team makes rounds throughout Memorial Hospital Central and Memorial Hospital North, providing direct patient care to patients who have PICC lines. The group is responsible for CVC, PICC and midline dressing changes, and provides regular education to the hospital staff regarding vascular access issues.<\/p>\n<p>Their effort shows in the data the hospital collects and tracks to ensure that every possible step is taken to keep patients safe. Memorial has had a zero infection rate for more than a year in the category of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs).<\/p>\n<p>A CLABSI is considered a hospital-acquired infection and is not reimbursable through Medicare\/Medicaid and many commercial insurance companies. The average cost of a CLABSI is between $30,000 and $60,000. Every day, Memorial\u2019s nurses visit patients who have a PICC line or midline to change their dressings. The team often talks with nurses on the floor, giving them pointers about how to prevent infection in patients.<\/p>\n<p>Jameson explained in the essay that Memorial is currently using \u201ca system which allows us to visualize the PICC catheter as it moves into the chest and down into the SVC (superior vena cava) along with the ECG (electrocardiogram) that we use for placement verification.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Memorial\u2019s team is the first PICC team in the United States to use ECG technology and the ninth hospital in the United States to use the technology without X-ray, meaning \u201cwe can clear our PICC lines using only the ECG technology, saving the patient from radiation exposure emitted from X-rays, as well as the added cost.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jameson said the team was extremely excited to learn they had received the honor from ADVANCE magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw pride on their faces,\u2019\u2019 Jameson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Hospital\u2019s PICC team received an honorable mention in the 2016 ADVANCE for Nurses Best Nursing Team Contest \u2013 an award bestowed on hospital nursing units that show extraordinary teamwork and dedication to patients. 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