Patient safety tool: ANA’s CAUTI prevention tool

The American Nurses Association provides a tool for nurses to help prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

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The tool includes a flow chart to aid in the decision to insert a catheter or not, as well as a checklist of tasks to complete before, during and after inserting an indwelling urinary catheter.

Access the tool here.

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