Female cathing

[sistrmoon]

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this as a trend. I get called in a lot to help with female catherization, and I've noticed a lot of nurses go right for the clitoral hood! Now there are definitely patients who present a challenge(I had one patient with very unique anatomy who stumped even my floor's most expert cathing people), but I guess I'd expect people to aim low into the lady parts rather than high like they seem to do so often. These are exclusively female nurses too, so I guess I'd expect that even if they somehow missed that class in A&P, maybe their own anatomy would help them along?

[heron, ASN, RN]

I've had great success with a side-lying position rather than the traditional one. You need plenty of hands, but with enough help, you can even visualize a retracted urethra in an elder. It also seems like many pts. tolerate the position better ... not all pts can tolerate lying flat on their backs for any length of time.