Dominant Theme | Illustrative Quotation |
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(Percent of focus group content pertaining to theme) | |
Physician Notification of Urinalysis Results (24%) | “If you have a new patient and [the physicians] are questioning what kind of sepsis they were having, then I would be more cognizant of if there was bacteria or white blood cells in the patient’s urine. But otherwise, not really.” –ICU RN E |
Personal Protective Equipment (13%) | “If I were straight cathing a large person I probably would gown up to protect my arms since you are going to be in there. If you are going to be doing something that’s fluidy, I would still wear them because they are outside of the rooms, whether they are ordered or not.” –ICU RN F (on PPE being a facilitator of proper straight catheterization technique) |
Collection Technique/Clean Catch (13%) | “If you are going to get a straight cath [sample] sterilely for a female, at least, you need two nurses, regardless of their size.” “Right, and then if it’s a bigger person, then it can take five to six potentially.” –ICU RNs E & C |
Patient Body Habitus (12%) | “Trying to get a clean catch on patients who don’t mobilize and can’t stand over a toilet, that is [an environmental barrier] too because we don’t really have bathrooms, we have swing out toilets that are too low for most of our patients anyways.” –ICU RN F |
Foley Catheter (12%) | “If you are super swamped in another room and a nurse helps you by dumping your Foley bag, [they may help you out by saying], ‘hey, did you notice that your urine looks terrible?’” –ICU RN D |