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When you're providing indwelling catheter care for an old lady.

what are the important things to tell her?

and why is this necessary to tell her?

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When you're providing indwelling catheter care for an old lady.

what are the important things to tell her?

and why is this necessary to tell her?

providing care for an old lady?

guess you mean older adult............

what care kind of care?

insertion,removal, or routine pericare?

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Somebody just asked this the other day and on this forum!

Words to use in place of "old" that sound more professional are elderly or aged.

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This elderly patient(82) was admitted to a hospital and catheterized (indwelling catheter).

so, what things would you be telling to her- in terms of patient education?

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Read the information on the weblinks. Think about the maintenance care you would be doing with the catheter. Think about what you would do if connected to a 5 or 6 inch tube with a bag draining your urine at the end of it. How would it restrict the way you did things? Much of this is based on common sense.

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