Nice post Dana! As we know, prevention is better than cure, and many UTI's can be prevented if we didn't use so many indwelling urinary catheters. The most common hospital-acquired infection is urinary tract infection (UTI), which accounts for almost 40% of all nosocomial infections (Saint, 2008). Most hospital-acquired UTIs are associated with urinary catheters, a commonly used device among hospitalized patients (Saint,2008). Urinary catheterization occurs in 25% of patient hospitalization, but other methods of prevention should be assessed first (Saint, 2008). One method to help decrease UTI's is portable ultrasound bladder scans to detect postvoid residual urine amounts, which we use on our post partum patients before we can catheterize
