PROVIDENCE — Katelyn Holt has been a nurse for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has noticed that the catheters her patients receive fall short. A few years ago, Holt was driving home from ...

A doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is working with a team of nurse and physician leaders to examine the use of urinary catheters, and related urinary tract infections, in ...

The risks of indwelling catheters include catheter-associated urinary tract infections, bacteraemia and increased mortality. In 2014, an acute trust implemented a project aimed at promoting the use of ...

princeton — WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital announced that its orthopedic nursing unit achieved outstanding performance in reducing Foley catheter use, surpassing national benchmarks set by ...

Indwelling devices like catheters cause roughly 25% of hospital infections, but ongoing efforts to reduce catheter use and misuse haven't succeeded as much as health care workers would like. But most ...