Presentations
Fliers & Pocket Cards
Fliers and pocket cards can be useful tools to frequently remind care givers about appropriate indications and early removal of indwelling urinary catheters. This tab contains several examples of fliers that can be posted on your local bulletin boards, adapted for use as computer screensavers, or utilized as pocket cards that staff can carry with them anywhere. Any of the materials in this tab can be used exactly as they appear or could be adapted for your local institution. These tools can be used to publicize and disseminate your local indwelling urinary catheter removal message to physicians, nurses, aides and other staff involved in the insertion and care of indwelling urinary catheters!
Here are several different examples you might wish to use.
The brochure entitled, “What Patients and Family Members Need to Know About the Risks Associated with Urinary Catheters” (Microsoft Word, PDF) can be very helpful in situations where there are frequent patient or family requests for a urinary catheter without an appropriate indication. We provide the file in Microsoft Word format to allow local sites to add names of their own staff as desired. Educating patients and their family members about the importance of urinary catheter risks can be an important way to reduce the unnecessary use of urinary catheters.
The brochure was authored by Christine Kowalski, MPH, Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH, Sarah Krein, PhD, RN, Russ Olmsted, MPH, CIC, and Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH.
The one page sheet entitled, “FAQs about Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections,” (PDF) provides patients with a good overview of urinary catheters as well as catheter-associated urinary tract infections and how patients can safely care for their urinary catheter. This sheet is distributed by SHEA, et. al. and is also available online.