Ashman

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1. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   thanks, i am looking into this.

2. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   Of course not, we have our SOP's at q1h and q2h in general, but what I am saying is that the whole issue of UO is overloaded with problems whether it be the manual measurement, the time factor associated with it, the potential susceptibility to infec...

3. Continuous Urine Monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in MICU

   What I am finding is that some of the mds after they are notified also take 24 hrs to get there. Who is the worse for it - the patient no?

4. Continuous Urine Monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in MICU

   Unfortunately what I am finding, in my research to find a solution, is that the problem is more rampant than anyone is willing to concede. We also have SOP's of q2h and definitely hourly in post-ops. However what I am saying is that UO has been the...

5. Continuous Urine Monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in MICU

   You are by all means correct, these are our standard practices too. On the other hand, we are not talking about SOP's here and evidently we are not alone. In my effort to find an alternative method/procedure to ensure that what sometimes occurs, ne...

6. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   Using the Foley bag with a urimeter is the way we go. Unfortunately the urimeter that we use has a reservoir of only 250 ml. So, wouldn't you know it, when the staff finally got around to taking the measurement, the patient had maintained an averag...

7. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   I agree completely. However could you imagine doing hemodynamic monitoring, manually, and crouched down under the bed? To do proper continuous urine output monitoring with a maybe less labor-intensive procedure for monitoring associated with it, we...

8. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   I really do not think it was a lack of concern, but rather it is a clumsy, crude and cumbersome procedure for an estimated measuring urine output. Personally I have a gut feeling that urine output is really a vital sign, but there are no tools to mea...

9. Continuous Urine monitoring

   Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

   You will have to pardon me, I have just been thrust into this urine output monitoring mess, in order to find a better way. We tend also to do only q8h I&O, even when they should be q1h. Personally I have this gut feeling that urine output really...

10. Continuous Urine Monitoring

    Ashman replied to Ashman's topic in MICU

    We only have problems with the ambulatory onco patients and the majority of inpatients here are on I/O too. Unfortunately you have missed my point. Haven't you ever been in a situation where an attending physician left instructions for urine output ...

11. Continuous Urine monitoring

    Ashman posted a topic in General Nursing

    Recently we have been involved in a number of cases where had urine output been more thoroughly monitored, symptoms could have been more readily detected, more focused treatment would have been applied to the patient and therefore better care would h...

12. Continuous Urine Monitoring

    Ashman posted a topic in MICU

    Recently we have been involved in a number of cases where had urine output been more thoroughly monitored, symptoms could have been more readily detected, more focused treatment would have been applied to the patient and therefore better care would h...