Foley catheter

Evidence base practice has been applied in all health care setting, every day nursing practice. Nursing and all professional are encourage to incorporate and utilized the available resource and guideline to their practice for quality patient outcomes. Evidence base practice is vital in nursing practice and it evident in quality care. For the following reasons, the process of EBP has to be monitored through ongoing quality monitoring and improvement. Another evidence-based practice currently…

Introduction: University of Louisville Hospital (UofL) is a branch of Kentucky One Health. The hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center collectively are known as University Medical Center (UMC). It has been recognized nationwide as a leader in trauma, stroke, high risk obstetrics, and cancer (2011). It also is an academic medical center. There are a variety of floors and services offered at UMC, ranging from ED, obstetrics, med-surg units, psychiatric services, intensive care units,…

nurse to patient rations. Are there related to the time constraint that we face when we have more patient to see in a short period of time? When a nurse is rushed minor mistakes occur, such as breaking the sterile field prior to insertion of a Foley catheter. Nurses are taught many principles to maintain an ethical stance in practice. We understand we must act…

infections. Most hospital-acquired UTIs emanates from the use of a urinary catheter, a widely used device among hospitalised patients. UTIs can be prevented by using indwelling catheters only when necessary, introducing reminder systems to get catheters removed as soon as possible, using antimicrobial-impregnated catheters in high-risk patients, and considering other options to Foley catheterisation (such as condom catheters for men). Whilst a number of reviews have been published evaluating UTI…

Nurse Practice Act: Implementation of Dialysis The Nurse Practice Act is in place to provide safe and effective guide lines for care within the scope of practice for an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP), License Practical Nurse (LPN), and Register Nurse (RN). Without these Acts, patients would be subject to harm and without protection by unqualified and incompetent UPC’s or nurses performing procedures out of their scope of practice. The Nurse Practice laws differ from state to state; some…

She has dysphagia and is currently on a mechanical soft diet. She has total right sided hemiparesis from a past CVA. She also has an indwelling Foley catheter…

in: Gloves contaminated with blood or other bodily fluids, bandages, gowns, paper towels and other absorbent material used to soak up blood and bodily fluids, swabs used for obtaining specimens, vaginal speculums, used urine collection cups, catheters and foley bags, and fecal…

hypovolemic shock, elevate the extremities if no fractures are obvious to assist in preventing shock, keep her warm and place T.J her on and NPO status because of altered gastrointestinal function that results from a burn injury (Silvestri, 2017). A foley catheter may be inserted so that the response to the fluid resuscitation can be monitored (Silvestri, 2017). The nurse should stay with the patient and monitor TJ’s status closely. Administering pain medications IV route to treat pain (5th…

In my experience on the PICU unit, I only noticed one or two barriers in the patient education process. The first barrier I noticed was that a lot of the patients are not in a state of mind to be educated at the time they are a patient on this unit. Maybe this is not a barrier in the process, but just a barrier. However, I did witness lots of education being done, but directed towards the family. In my opinion this is a great way to get the education complete. Also, lots of times the family…

of her treatment plan (Lester, 1997) Plan of Care When planning care for Estelle many aspects must be taken into consideration, such as the prevention of infection such as lung infections like pneumonia, the development of UTI due to having a Foley catheter in place, prevention of muscle wasting, and development of Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (Arenella, 2014). The plan of care for Estelle would also include…