Urine Sample from Foley

FIRST check your procedure manual. If you don't have one then your facility needs one STAT.
Wash your hands. Put on gloves.

Clamp tubing with a Dravon A clamp

http://www.dravon.com/a-clamp.html

below the aspiration port for 15 minutes. Swab port with alcohol sponge Use a sterile slip fit or aspiration tip NOT A NEEDLE EVER! Withdraw 10cc. of urine. Put specimen into screw top sterile container and label. Put closed container into zip top plastic bag. Send to lab.

Okay, I'm glad this topic came up because I found out something interesting recently in one of my clinical rotations. The policy and procedure at this facility now enforces that every time a urine sample needs to be collected from a patient with a foley cath, the foley must be removed. The sample is then collected from freshly voided urine (mid-stream I assume) and then a new foley is then inserted. Their "rationale" was that even if you use the port, contamination is still an issue within the tubing itself.

This makes absolutely no sense to me... and what I believe it boils down to is a lack of good technique.

Okay, I'm glad this topic came up because I found out something interesting recently in one of my clinical rotations. The policy and procedure at this facility now enforces that every time a urine sample needs to be collected from a patient with a foley cath, the foley must be removed. The sample is then collected from freshly voided urine (mid-stream I assume) and then a new foley is then inserted. Their "rationale" was that even if you use the port, contamination is still an issue within the tubing itself.

This makes absolutely no sense to me... and what I believe it boils down to is a lack of good technique.