You are a nurse on the Acute Care for the Elderly unit in a large academic medical center.One of the performance improvement projects of your unit is to implement a protocol to decrease the use of indwelling urinary catheters.The major reason for the choice of this project is that:
A) urinary catheters are very costly.
B) long-term catheter use increases the risk of urinary tract infections.
C) long-term catheter use causes pain in older adults.
D) intermittent catheterization is very time consuming.

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Long-term catheter use increases the risk of urinary tract infections leading to urosepsis.There is no evidence that the project is based on a financial issue.Unless there are complications from insertion or other conditions specific to an individual,urinary catheters do not routinely cause pain.There is no indication that intermittent catheterization is more time consuming than properly caring for an indwelling catheter.

You Are a Nurse on the Acute Care for the Elderly