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In 2019, an article in a pharmaceutical journal reported that patients were being put at risk by most adult patients not having their intravenous (IV)-giving sets flushed. This had been brought to light through a patient safety forum and was quite the scandal. As chair of the National Infusion and Vascular Access Society (NIVAS), and a nurse practitioner for IV therapy at the time, I was a little confused about this. Although my formal IV therapy training had been nearly 20 years ago, I had no recollection of being taught to flush the IV-giving set after the infusion bag was empty. I asked around and confirmed that, apart from oncology and paediatrics, this was certainly not common practice in adult nursing in the UK. ....
E-Mail N-PATH is the most innovative European training course in interventional nephrology funded by European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ program coordinated by the University of Bari, in collaboration with the European Renal Association (ERA-EDTA), the Vascular Access Society, important international academic centers and two companies specialized in medical training. We are happy and proud to have achieved this important result. The European Union has distinctly rewarded the quality of the project but above all the importance of our challenge: to strengthen the training of young nephrologists in order to more effectively combat the increase in kidney diseases in our society - explained Prof. Loreto Gesualdo, scientific coordinator of the consortium. ....