100 pts
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Identify gender, age, and alterations in health status that could affect the performance of nursing skills and or patient encounter.
Exemplify the conceptual framework pillars of caring, communication, critical thinking, professionalism, and holism when providing nursing care. Integrate patient assessment findings when performing nursing skills.
Check Doctor's orders, gather equipment, provides patient with privacy, explains the procedure to patient and explains positioning to the patient, identifies the correct patient. Use self-correction to prevent the commission of errors.
Washes hands, uses clean gloves to open kit, prepares the kit as a sterile field and applies sterile gloves. Lubricates the end of the catheter. Utilize principles of medical and surgical asepsis in the performance of all nursing skills.
The nurse uses the non-dominant hand to clean the peri-urethral area and uses the dominant hand to utilize forceps and cleansing solution to clean using anterior to posterior, inner to outer, and using one swipe per swab, discarding away from the sterile field. Utilize correct body mechanics during the performance of all nursing skills.
Picks up catheter with sterile hand. Locates meatus and Inserts catheter while maintaining sterility. Inflates balloon with full amount of saline in syringe. Places attached stat-lock to patient leg and connects urinary catheter tubing.
Nurse describes evaluation of catheter function, urine amount and quality of urine and if specimen is needed. Removes gloves and discards trash. Washes hands with soap and water. Utilize accurate documentation and appropriate patient education related to performing nursing skills.
Nurse assess indwelling catheter shortly after to ensure patency, patient comfort or pain, urine output and any other additional orders.