Effective urinary catheter care: Essential tips for aged care nurses
Urinary catheter insertion is a common procedure for managing urinary complications in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Research, however, suggests that catheter-associated urinary tract infections are the most common nosocomial infections worldwide. Of healthcare-associated urinary tract infections, 80% occur in catheterised patients (Gesmundo, 2016 & Gilbert et al., 2018). The National Ageing Research Institute (2024)…
