1. You are a nurse caring for a 73-year-old farmer who was brought to your emergency department via ambulance after she fell while caring for her chickens. The external rotation of her left foot indicates the high likelihood that she fractured her hip with the fall. As you prepare her for surgery, you note that the health care provider has ordered the insertion of a urinary catheter. (Learning Outcomes 1, 3, and 4)
a. Outline measures you would take to prevent infectious agents from being introduced during her catheter insertion.
b. List potential reservoirs for infection that could contaminate this procedure.
c. How does correctly utilizing sterile technique impact the cycle of infection?
d. Describe how violation of sterile technique could introduce pathogens in this procedure.
e. Indicate the factors that would make your patient a susceptible host to infection.
1. You are a nurse caring for a 73-year-old farmer who was brought to your emergency department via ambulance after she fell while caring for her chickens. The external rotation of her left foot indicates the high likelihood that she fractured her hip with the fall. As you prepare her for surgery, you note that the health care provider has ordered the insertion of a urinary catheter. (Learning Outcomes 1, 3, and 4)
a. Outline measures you would take to prevent infectious agents from being introduced during her catheter insertion.
b. List potential reservoirs for infection that could contaminate this procedure.
c. How does correctly utilizing sterile technique impact the cycle of infection?
d. Describe how violation of sterile technique could introduce pathogens in this procedure.
e. Indicate the factors that would make your patient a susceptible host to infection.