Nursing management of paediatric urethral catheterisation
Lucy Bray Research practitioner, Edge Hill College of Higher Education and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Caroline Sanders Clinical nurse specialist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
This article outlines evidence-based approaches to paediatric catheterisation in acute care settings. The reasons for catheterisation, anatomy and physiology of the urinary system and the procedure and potential complications are discussed.
Nursing Standard.
20, 24, 51-60.
doi: 10.7748/ns2006.02.20.24.51.c4076
Correspondence
smithl@edgehill.ac.uk
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