Association for Vascular Access
Protect the Patient | Educate the Clinician | Save the Line
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Association for Vascular Access promotes the emerging vascular access specialty and provides educational material to promote proper practice techniques in an effort to take steps toward a world with safe vascular access. More than 90% of hospitalized patients receive some form of intravenous therapy via the delivery of fluids, medication or parental nutrition. Unfortunately, the vascular access devices through these therapies are administered are prone to complications and infection. AVA stands at the forefront of addressing this problem by providing professional and public education and training to the clinicians placing vascular access devices to protect patients and keep them and their devices safe.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Annual AVA Scientific Meeting
The annual AVA Scientific Meeting provides attendees with an opportunity to receive the most up-to-date information, research and evidence to support them in their vascular access practice. The educational resources available at this meeting continues to grow and is unmatched in the vascular access specialty.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
AVA's mission is to lead healthcare by protecting patients and providers to improve lives. To do so, it needs to assist in the improvement of healthcare and patient outcomes as it relates to vascular access.
AVA's focus is deeply rooted in its vision. It is our organization's goal to provide a voice and serve the direct needs of the vascular access community by driving outcomes that enhance the capabilities of its stakeholders. To develop, educate and implement practical practice guidelines across its multidisciplinary membership, AVA intends to promote consistency in vascular access practice through identifying and documenting best practices and reducing vascular access complications. It is our goal to create an independent/unbiased and transparent structure within AVA to manage and promote our research agenda.
Doing so will strengthen the organization as we successfully deliver on reaching the vision and goals in our strategic plan, raising funds and increasing its membership by 50% through its execution.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To provide a voice to and serve the needs of the vascular access community, AVA needs to extend its reach internationally and throughout the industry. Through the successful execution of a communications strategy, our organization will reach more clinicians across the globe. This includes expanding our social media reach, publishing articles and position papers in our peer-reviewed scientific journal, hosting renowned vascular access key opinion leaders on our association's podcast and reaching members via email.
Additionally, AVA plans to curate novel, innovate vascular access content and sell it on a user-friendly learning management system. The education includes specific tutorials on things like the use of an ultrasound machine to assess a site on a patient for catheter insertion, an overview of how to properly place a peripherally inserted central catheter into a sterile field and more. This learning management system will house other educational material like webinars, past presentations and sessions from previous national AVA meetings and more.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Through AVA's connection to The AVA Foundation, its donors and professional organizations in the industry, it intends to establish a plan that, once executed, will allow it to achieve its goals.
Soliciting for donations to the Foundation through various social media and text-to-give campaigns, in addition to selling its own educational materials will provide AVA with the means to meet these milestones. By leaning on its multidisciplinary membership, staff and Board of Directors for guidance, our organization will move closer to completing its mission of creating a world with safe vascular access.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
-17% membership increase, one new non-clinical member benefit (reduced tuition at Grand Canyon University for members and their spouses/dependents) established as of September 2019
-social media following growing exponentially; Facebook followers now above 5,000 as of September 2019
-15 podcasts published in 2019
-5 position papers approved by AVA Board of Directors and published in 2019
-AVA Academy launched in May 2019; learning management system for members and non-members to earn CEs and further their education
-Vascular Acess Board Certification Resource Guide published prior to national scientific meeting in October 2019
-Enhanced Edition of Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access published in July 2019
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Association for Vascular Access
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Jocelyn Hill
AVA President
Term: 2021 - 2021
Lori Kaczmarek
AVA Presidential Advisor
Term: 2021 - 2021
Lori Kaczmarek
Presidential Advisor
Jocelyn Grecia Hill
President
Russell Nassof
Secretary
Jon Bell
Treasurer
Tonja Stevens
President-Elect
Monte Harvill
Director-at-Large
Tonya Heim
Director-at-Large
Michelle DeVries
Director-at-Large
Staci Harrison
Director-at-Large
Nael Mhaissen
Director-at-Large
Swapna Kakani
Director-at-Large