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Advanced Bladder Management
This course includes essential information for nurses that work in various healthcare environments, including long-term care, home health, and acute care. Along with teaching procedures associated with indwelling urinary catheters, this course also contains information about urinalysis, urine cultures, preventing urinary tract infections, and treatment of catheter-associated UTIs.
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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- State at least 3 symptoms of urinary tract infection.
- List 3 items to include in documentation following indwelling urinary catheter irrigation.
- Identify the most effective way to prevent catheter associated urinary tract infection.
Curriculum
Chapter 1: Suprapubic Catheters
Chapter 2: Suprapubic Catheters – Initial Tube Change
Chapter 3: Suprapubic Catheters – Subsequent Changes
Chapter 4: Foley Catheters - Intermittent Irrigation
Chapter 5: Foley Catheters - Continuous Bladder Irrigation
Chapter 6: Condom (Texas) Catheters
Chapter 7: Intermittent (“In-and-Out”) Self-Catheterization
Chapter 8: Risk Factors Associated with Indwelling Urinary Catheters
Chapter 9: Symptoms of UTI, Interpreting Urinalysis and Urine CultureChapter 10: References
- California Bill 241
- Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- What is Implicit Bias?
- Implications of Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- How to Reduce Implicit Bias
Price: $12.00
Contact Hour: 1
Course Author
Carrie Bennett
Carrie Bennett has twenty years of experience as a registered nurse in the fields of orthopedics, long term care, chronic ventilator care, nursing education and health care informatics. She earned both her BSN and MSN at California State University Dominguez Hills.
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