학술논문

Patient Education in Intermittent Catheterization: A Consensus Conference
Document Type
Periodical
Source
Urologic Nursing. Sept-Oct, 2023, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p219, 3 p.
Subject
Health education
Health
Health care industry
Language
English
ISSN
1053-816X
Abstract
Evidence guiding best practice when educating patients who are beginning and continuing a program of intermittent catheterization remains limited. During early December 2022 in Austin, Texas, a consensus panel of clinicians and researchers with expertise in intermittent catheterization was convened in person to create and discuss evidence and consensus-based statements that clinicians can use when instructing patients and caregivers when beginning intermittent selfor assisted catheterization. This article summarizes the full paper, which was published in the September/October 2023 issue of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 393,399; Quallich et al., 2023). The infographic summarizing the article by Quallich et al. (2023) can be found at https://doi.org/10.1097/WON.0000000000001013 Keywords Intermittent urethral catheterization, caregivers, education, urinary catheter, urethra, nurses.
Intermittent self-catheterization (ISC) is a widely adopted option for patient management for urinary retention. However, there is a lack of standardization regarding the training of individual health care team members [...]