How do you obtain urine specimen from foley catheter?
My inservice/infection control nurse told us during our inservice that every time we have to obtain urine from foley, we have to insert new foley in, not just a foley drainage bag but new catheter too. I mean if patient needs urine specimen 2 or 3 times a week, we have to take old one our and insert new one, isn't that a infection issue?
When I did my clinicals in the hospital, we never had to reinsert new foley nor I was taught this way in nursing school. I was taught to clamp the foley and obtain urine specimen from the pole close to the foley catheter.
Does anyone have article or some kind of research paper that shows the proper way of doing this? Thanks