Catheters

know why urinary incontinence problem arises? When you have weak voluntary control over urinary sphincter, it becomes difficult to hold urine in bladder. Reliable protection can be gained by using several products available for men and women like catheters, penile sheaths, beds, chair protection, pads, etc. Pads are considered to be most popular among other products and can be worn inside underwear. Effective solution on the go…

In Year 5 we had to dress up for a day as the person we wanted to be as an adult. I woke early and dressed in a white garment, instruments and tools tucked into my breast pocket, pad gripped in hand. I wanted to be an artist then but now I have made the decision to be a doctor. Being an imaginative youth, the human body: the intricate structures of electrical and biochemical pathways working, or not, in synchronisation, is something I found amazing but also terrible. Intellectually I was…

QSEN Competency: Teamwork and Collaboration ICARE Value: Accountability Journaling Question: Reflect on conversations/interactions you have heard or been involved in within the health care setting today and benefited the patient. This week in labour and delivery I was able to gain many new experiences. On Tuesday, I gained a lot through the interaction and conversation between healthcare workers and students as it was a slower day on the floor allowing me to see how important teamwork and…

rib fractures. I know change is “just the way it is” in this profession so I’m trying to gear myself up for it. Examples of when you would dig out the HCPCS book :-) When a 68-year-old patient had a complete cystectomy they would need to have a catheter system supplied for them. You would find it in the HCPCS. When a patient goes in for nuclear medicine imaging procedure the contrast would be identified by a HCPCS code. When a patient is on Medicaid and has incontinence issues their supplies…

incision in the abdominal area, removing the damaged portion of the aorta, and inserting a graft. The recovery time after surgery can take up to several weeks. Endovascular surgery is far less invasive than open surgery. The surgeon pushes a thin catheter through the femoral artery in the leg to the certain portion of the aorta. Then, a small graft is inserted and fastened to the aorta. This strengthens the weak wall to prevent a the aneurysm to rupture. Because the surgery is less invasive than…

Coronary artery disease (CAD) results when our body’s coronary arteries become damaged. Our coronary arteries are important because “they supply our heart with blood, oxygen, and nutrients” (Coronary artery disease, 2014). Our arteries typically get damaged because of plaque and inflammation developing inside them. “The buildup of plaque causes our arteries to become narrower and that decreases our blood flow to our heart” (Coronary artery disease, 2014). This decreased blood flow can cause…

Abortion For many years the topic abortion has become very controversial. Whether it is supported by those who believe that women should have a choice to have an abortion if they wanted, because it is a constitutional right. While opposed by those who believe that having an abortion is immoral murder to an unborn baby. Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy followed by the death of the embryo or fetus (Merriam-Webster). Abortion laws date back to the 1800’s and have continuously…

Background Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth that penetrates the skin as a method of infection. This parasitic worm gains nutrients and shelter from its host, while causing malnourishment or harm to the diseased. The infective filariform penetrates the skin from infected soil and migrates to the lungs through the blood stream. In order to mature the filariform larvae are coughed up and swallowed to develop into adults in the intestines. The diagnostic stage is the…

see Mrs. Jones use the bathroom continently without soiling her own clothes. Many people don’t realize that nursing isn’t for everybody, it is for a special breed, the type of breed that is not scared to wipe somebody’s genital area, give a urinary catheter, or even…

ESU grounding pad was put onto the right thigh. The ESU grounding pad is used to allow the electrical current of the ESU to loop back to the ESU machine to prevent patient injury. The circulating nurse then inserted an indwelling 16-French Foley catheter to drain urine intraoperatively and postoperatively. A balloon was inflated to 10 ml and secured to the patient’s thigh and connected to a gravity drain. The levels and color of the urine were watched carefully as this surgery is a nephrectomy…