So I'm a CNA, and a nurse was getting onto me about urine bag
I put the resident in the chair and he has a urinary bag. I used a privacy cover and clipped the bag below the bladder level. I put the tube through the bottom of the pants.
A nurse today told me that I MUST use a leg bag. This resident produces a lot of urine, so it doesn't seem like that would be ideal.
Her reasoning for saying a leg bag is required is because the tubing goes up out of the bottom of the pants and into the urinary bag and that the tubing should never go up.
The part that goes up is still below the bladder level. And upon checking the urinary bag was filled with urine after draining a few hours before just before putting him on the chair.
Basically I'm curious if she is correct or if it's okay to put the urinary bag like this as long as the tube and bag is below bladder level...
For a diagram here is how the bag was
Because a nurse was getting onto me about the tubing going up out of the pants, but the bag was getting filled because it was below the bladder level
Basically it was like this
Chair
Bladder
|
| _
| / \
| / Urinary bag
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