Question

Discuss nursing measures to reduce risk for urinary tract infections

Answer 1

ANSWER.

Nursing measures to reduce the risk for urinary tract infections.

    * Instruct the patient to maintain good personal hygiene to reduce the risk

      of UTI.

    * Use aseptic techniques when doing nursing interventions to reduce the risk

      spread of nosocomial infection.

    * Encourage the patient to take adequate fluids to decrease the risk of UTI.

    * Instruct the patient to maintain sexual hygiene to reduce the risk of

      UTI.

    * Instruct the patient to take vitamin C rich food items like grapes,oranges,lemon,

      strawberries etc to kill pathogens in the urine by acidifying the urine.

    * Administration of probiotics(good bacterias) as per physicians order to prevent

      spread of pathogenic microorganisms from rectum to urethra.