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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Free CE on Patient Safety and Urinary Drainage Systems thru 7/28/10

Safe Practices in Patient Care offers free CE articles with post-tests. This serial publication is dedicated to helping nurses caring for the critically and chronically ill to minimize medical errors by presenting clinically and evidenced-based safe practices. Safe Practices is an accredited home-study program and is underwritten by an educational grant from Kendall Tyco Healthcare Group LP/Covidien.

The current issue is a Symposium: Consensus and controversy in urinary drainage systems: Implications for improving patient safety, underwritten by Covidien.

According to the description, a panel of expert clinicians—a urologist, urological nurse practitioners, a clinical nurse specialist, and a wound, ostomy and continence nurse—were asked to respond to questions about urinary drainage systems: on design features of optimal urinary drainage systems, challenges faced by patients managed by short- and long-term indwelling catheters, and the potential for urinary drainage systems to reduce UTI risk.

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