Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An intervention in a general medicine ward found that a medical directive allowing nurses to remove urinary ...

A nurse-directed catheter removal protocol was associated with reduced urinary catheter use and lower catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates in a Connecticut hospital, according to a study ...

About one in two nurses experience blood exposure at least once a month when inserting a peripheral intravenous catheter, according to a new study by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center ...

A hospital-based medical directive allowing nurses to assess patients and remove their urinary catheter (UC) without separate medical orders each time has led to decreased numbers of ...

Indwelling devices like catheters cause roughly 25% of hospital infections, but ongoing efforts to reduce catheter use and misuse haven't succeeded as much as health care workers would like. But most ...

A program to stop catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) at one neurosurgical intensive care unit (ICU) has been a resounding success. By mid-May, the unit hadn't seen an infection in ...

Two specialist nurses are playing a key role in what is thought to be the UK’s first scheme to allow prostatectomy patients to remove their own catheters at home after surgery. Prostate clinical nurse ...

The fight against catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI) continues, with a new study describing the implementation of a nurse-directed programme for catheter removal that halved the use of indwelling urinary ...

Although effective catheter reviews can facilitate timely removal of indwelling urinary catheters, there is no clear guidance on how to carry out this essential clinical skill Abstract The presence of ...

Over the past decade, needlestick safety has become de rigueur, but according to a new study, nurses are often exposed to blood in their mucus membranes in another way: by inserting a peripheral IV ...

Epidural catheters can be removed safely despite international normalized ratios higher than 1.4 during the initiation of warfarin therapy, according to a study reported in Anesthesiology News. The ...