Emergency Department Urinary Retention Pathway
Emergency Department Urinary Retention Pathway
Goals
- Engage physicians and allied health care professionals from both Urology and Emergency Departments.
- Create, develop and review a new pathway that has not been previously used.
- Provide a safer and more uniform algorithm for accomplishing catheter insertions.
Outcomes
- Improved patient-centered outcomes.
- Foster collaboration between nursing and physicians as well as between departments.
- Achieve a common goal.
Budget approved: $
7,908