Clinical Consultative Programs
ON-SITE TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Courses
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Comprehensive Program and Practice Assessment for CAUTI Prevention/Urinary Catheter Management
Purpose: Review the elements in place at the hospital facility that make up the overall CAUTI prevention program. Elements include: adequacy of current policies and procedures, infrastructure for implementing national UTI Prevention guidelines, existing CAUTI prevention training programs and current monitoring methods, including the CAUTI surveillance plan.
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Foley Catheter Observation Survey
Purpose: Determine types and numbers of various indwelling catheters in use. Assess compliance with Foley catheter care and management practices described in published guidelines for reducing risks of CAUTI
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Foley Catheter Utilization Survey
Purpose: This survey examines the indications and appropriate duration of indwelling urinary catheters with the following objectives: Compare reasons given by nurses for indwelling catheters to CDC indications criteria (or the facility’s own criteria). Examine current measures in place to improve Foley appropriateness and duration. Determine caregiver compliance with existing hospital prevention guidelines.
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Retrospective Analysis to Assess the Impact of the BARDEX® IC Foley Catheter on the Incidence of Symptomatic Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Purpose: IRB approved, standardized, protocol based study designed to compare CAUTI rates between patients receiving standard non-silver coated Foley catheters and patients