Daring my second semester I met a geriatric patient, The patient was a seventy-eight year old male. His medical diagnosis was dementia, anxiety, congestive heart failure, and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). This gentleman’s BPH resulted in acute urinary retention which has symptoms of inability to urinate, painful urgent need to urinate, pain or discomfort in the lower abdomen, bloating of the lower abdomen. To access for BPH one asks the patient about difficulty in starting or continuing urination
and can then be taken from an outlet device to be drained. Laboratory tests can be conducted on the urine to look for infection, blood, muscle breakdown, crystals, electrolytes, and kidney function. The procedure to insert a catheter is called catheterization” (emedicinehealth.com, 2014) Catheter insertion is not the first step for babies. U bags are the first step for babies, before consideration of a catheter. Before placing the U Bag, position the baby and have someone to hold baby in place
Student no: 5310064 Assessment 2 Catheter associated Urinary Tract Infection Patient safety indicator Patient safety and quality care is very essential for the preventive, curative and promotive health care of the patient. Patient safety indicators are those indicators that help to provide care with patient safety. Patient safety indicators should always be measurable. There is a vital role of nurses and health care professionals in promoting and maintaining patient safety and quality care in the
of this paper is to provide research to support that infection, with urinary catheter use, is an ongoing issue, in many hospitals. Carter et al., 2014 defines a urinary catheter as an indwelling tube that runs through the urethra and into the bladder allowing for the passive drainage of urine from the bladder. A balloon at the inner end of the catheter is inflated with sterile water to hold the catheter in place. Catheterization is a sterile procedure, which if broken, could compromise the patient;
Urinary Catheter Days Catheter Acquired Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) has become to be classified as one among the leading infections which most individuals end up being susceptible to acquire while at the hospital. Healthcare-associated or acquired infections (HAIs) are a significant cause of illness, death, and more often than not, have resulted to cost the tax payers potentially high medical expenses in most health care settings. ("Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality," para. 1) Due
better patient outcomes. Nursing leaders have significant impact on quality management and empowering employees to seek process improvement. In my paper, I will discuss application of PDSA cycle in quality improvement to decrease catheter-associated-urinary-tract-infections (CAUTIs) among elderly patients. Gained knowledge will help with identification of strategy to reduce the number of CAUTIs in acute care settings. Furthermore, staff will be empowered to improve the delivery of care to this population
infections should never occur in a hospital setting, Phenomenon of Interest Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) is one of the most common health-care associated infections, with an estimated 1.7 million infections reported yearly, accounting for a total of 36% of all hospital associated infections (HAIs) in the U.S (citation). CAUTIs are the result of microorganisms entering the urinary tract. Urinary tract infections may be characterized by cloudy, foul smelling, or blood tinged urine (Ignatavicius
Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infections in the Geriatric Healthcare Setting A urinary tract infection (UTI) is defined as an infection of the kidneys, ureters, or bladder caused by microorganisms that either ascend from the urethra (95% of cases) or that spread to the kidney from the bloodstream (5%). About 7 million American patients visit health care providers each year because of Urinary tract infections. These infections commonly occur in otherwise healthy women, men with prostatic hypertrophy
Shaw, C., & Logan, K. (2013). Psychological coping with intermittent self-catheterization (ISC) in people with spinal injury: A qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50(10), 1341-1350. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2013.01.009 Complete the following information. Be specific in your responses. You must present a rationale for ALL items. No yes or no responses are accepted. This is a critical analysis of the article. Copying of information from the article with no analysis or rationale
It’s funny how life can change in the blink of an eye; one day you are a normal teenager and the next you become the sole caregiver to your mother who has terminal cancer. For most, other family members are there to help, but in my case, I was alone. The summer consisted of a daily routine; we woke up, made breakfast, got dressed, and drove to doctor’s appointments. I remember waking up late one morning and not only did my routine for the day change, but also my life. That morning I ran downstairs
Once becoming a cardiologist the extended odyssey begins. In a typical day cardiologists can engage in a multitude of activities. Most cardiologists spend their typical days diagnosing patients, interacting with them and engaging in different procedures to help the heart. What they can also do is, they can review patients charts and from that they determine which steps need to be taken. For instance, cardiologists can insert pacemakers which are artificial devices that are placed near the heart inside
The Urinary System How do the urinay system work ?? Your body takes nutrients from food and uses them to maintain all bodily functions including energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, waste products are left behind in the blood and in the bowel. The urinary system works with the lungs, skin, and intestines--all of which also excrete wastes--to keep the chemicals and water in your body balanced. Adults eliminate about a quart and a half of urine each day
muscle tone, which further worsens LUTS (Buttaro et al., 2013). The symptoms can be either obstructive or irritative in nature. Obstructive symptoms include slow urine flow, urinary hesitancy, need to strain to initiate urine flow, feeling of incomplete emptying, and terminal dribbling. Irritative symptoms include urinary urgency, frequency, and nocturia (DuBeau, Yalla, & Resnick, 2011). Irritative symptoms are due to reduced functional bladder capacity, instability or infection. Occasionally
The title of the first presentation was Practicum Experience at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua Moore is from the Kinesiology-Exercise/Fitness Management and he did his internship at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua made programs using dumbbells for his group of clients at his Internship. Other responsibilities he had was to monitor them while they exercised, check their ECGs and paperwork. He mentioned that checking their ECGs was the hardest part of the job since he was not very familiar with it
an abnormal increase in muscle tone, overactive stretch reflex, and clonus. Multiple causes can contribute to an increase in spasticity including but not limited to: changes in positions, the temperature of the environment, tightness of clothing, urinary/digestive complications, emotional stress, pressure ulcers, or a quick passive stretch to the spastic muscle. The severity of spasticity varies, and SCIs who have been diagnosed with spasticity reports it as being problematic; however, if those with
Due to the breadth of the female urinary incontinence (UI) device market, categorizing it can aid in better understanding it. The first distinction to be made is between products which are designed to prevent urinary incontinence episodes, and those which are designed to manage them. Within the former category, exist products such as pharmaceuticals, surgical options, bulking agents, nerve stimulation devices, bladder supports and inserts. Within the UI management device category, we find devices
associated urinary tract infections(CAUTI). This type of infection is acquired from the use of urinary catheter while in the hospital. According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, urinary tract infections are responsible for 40 percent of all hospital-acquired infections annually, with 80% of these hospital acquired infection caused by use of indwelling urinary catheters. When any type of tubes or catheters are introduced in the body it serves as a medium for infection. Urinary catheters
When one speaks of transmittable diseases one does not often think that cystitis is one of the most prevalent. Cystitis effects both genders, the young, the old and can lead to complications that can do irreparable damage to the urinary tract. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the disease of cystitis and relate the specific virulence factors of Escherichia coli to the prevalence and symptoms of cystitis. This will be accomplished by defining the disease, its etiology and the causative agent
(CDC) found that urinary tract infections were the most common health care associated infections (HAI?s). These infections account for >30% of HAI?s (CDC, 2009). The CDC further estimated the number of attributable mortalities at >13,000. CAUTI rates have increased from three percent between 2009 to 2012, to six percent between 2009-2013 (CDC, 2009). While at times urinary catheter may be a necessary intervention, studies have confirmed over half the patients who receive a urinary catheter do not
Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury Urinary tract infections [UTIs] are the most frequent infections in patients with both traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury [SCI] and occurs at a rate of 2.5 events per patient per year.1 The majority of cases of septicemia can be attributed to the urinary tract with a mortality rate of about 15 percent.1 Systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials have shown that several modalities are effective in UTI prevention;