Foley Cath organization

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Specializes in Hospice.

Asking all of you home health nurses:  How do you store all of your Foley catheters?  I have most of my supplies in totes, but the foleys are so long and bendy and end up getting folded and wrecked.  Has anyone come up with a solution?  I looked into foley storage online but they are all shelving units, not portable.  I'm thinking I'll get a poster tube and cut it to fit, but I'd love any other ideas.  Thanks!

Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Just used a clear Sterilite 66 Quart Latch Box  to store my extra equipment  --gallon bag to group supplies along with a plastic milk carton size one with file folders with teaching handouts for frequent diseases seen: CHT, COPD, DM, Foley catheter care/UTI prevention,  Nutrition info, how to make sterile saline + dakins solution, IV teaching info, etc.

Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.

I order my foleys to be delivered to the house and then keep them in the box they came in. I put the foley kits, leg straps, flush kits in the same box and that's my foley box. I've never crushed or ruined them.

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