Provider partnership is requested in key areas:
1. Awareness and Support of Nurse Driven Removal Protocol (NDR): Epic order for indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) includes NDR and does not need a separate order
2. Acute Urine Retention Protocol is a separate EPIC order as part of IUC insertion. Nurses cannot implement without an order
3. Judicious use of IUC for “critically ill”. Nurses are accountable for the accuracy of I/O whenever ordered. Alternative devices maybe used to collect, an IUC is not always necessary
4. Use of alternative Urine collection Devices. 12 alternative urine collection devices are available in our facilities and may be appropriate to obtain acute urine volumes
5. Appropriate Culture Ordering and Urine Sample Collection. Use Urinalysis with microscopic with culture if indicated or Urinalysis, reflex microscopic and/or culture
We appreciate your ongoing partnership in reducing Hospital Associated Infections!
-Preeti