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Catheters: An Undesirable Treatment for Bladder Management in the Laboring Woman (CAUTI)

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Title: Catheters: An Undesirable Treatment for Bladder Management in the Laboring Woman (CAUTI)

Longhorn Hall D (Gaylord Grapevine)
Dale Monnier, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM , Nursing Education, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
Jean Salera-Vieira, MS, PNS, APRN-CNS, RNC-OB, C-EFM , Education Department, Kent Hospital, Warwick, RI

Discipline: Obstetric (OB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • Describe use of a bladder protocol to allow for bladder emptying during labor without immediate placement of an indwelling catheter.
  • State clincial rationale for use of a bladder protocol in labor.
  • Recognize indication for indwelling catheter placement in the laboring woman.

    • Submission Description:
    Using evidence-based literature, two birthing hospitals within the same system work to reduce indwelling catheter use when a laboring woman received an epidural. This led to development of a bladder protocol.

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