dawdlingsquid

Thanks for the input. I asked the question about a year ago as the unit established a committee to continue education with out the “IC specialist”. Since then our CAUTI rates have gone to 0. We did find that routine care was not the newest EBP and that ED was willy nilly putting them in everyone regardless of need. So they put in a new policy for ED. Thanks for the additional info on existing UTI and foleys, that’s very helpful.

Foley care is being charted but I highly doubt it is being done

Thanks for that info. Changing foleys is something that I saw that is being done in other hospitals and I want to try to start that in my unit.

That's interesting. Do you know what the reason is? My cynical side tells me it would be budget related.

That's interesting. Do you know what the reason is? My cynical side tells me it would be budget related.

Thanks for the input. Do you feel like it has helped?

I agree that it feels like it can't hurt. My problem is that I am trying to put together education for our unit to understand why we do things so maybe we can have a higher compliance. I feel like if people understand the 'why', they do it cause they want to not because they have to. I haven't seen any research on this subject and wanted to see if others are practicing this. I guess if I cant find any soon I might have to figure out how to do the research myself. :)

I work in a Neuro ICU and we have had a huge problem with CAUTI this year. Our hospital hired some outside infection control person to come over see our unit and one other. One of the new things they added was placing curos caps on the sampling port. The IC person is no longer overseeing the unit and we recently established volunteers from the unit to continue the education. I have been trying to research this and I can not for the life of me find anything to support this practice. Is anyone else doing this at thier hospital? Or can point me to some research. I have used CINAHL and basic Google but no luck. TIA