#414: MMM - Foley Tip for a Large Prostate

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

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Let's start your week strong with a quick tip you can incorporate right away. In this Mo's Monday Minute shortie episode, I'm sharing an important tip for inserting a Foley catheter in patients with enlarged prostates. You don't want to miss this episode, because trying to force the catheter is a quick path to injury, pain, and infection. Hit play and find out what to do instead! ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.7	Well, hi there. I'm Nurse Moe, and welcome to Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast where I share a quick tip that you can start using to improve your
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0:56.8	All right, so today we're talking about a Foley tip for when your patient has an enlarged
1:02.2	prostate.
1:03.8	And if you do need to insert a folic catheter into a patient with an enlarged prostate,
1:08.5	it is very likely going to be more challenging than it otherwise
1:14.0	would be. And this is simply because that enlarged prostate can put pressure on the urethra,
1:21.2	and it can even cause urethral strictures in some cases. So let's say you've got a patient,
1:27.1	they need a folic catheter, you know they've
1:29.1	got an enlarged prostate, you may try inserting it, and if you're not able to actually advance
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