Dorothy Janes is an 80-year-old female admitted to your unit for hypertension and a history of stroke with residual right-sided weakness. She is alert and oriented to person, time, and place but...

Dorothy Janes is an 80-year-old female admitted to your unit for hypertension and a history of stroke with residual right-sided weakness. She is alert and oriented to person, time, and place but requires assistance with ambulation due to a history of falls. Her health care provider ordered Dorothy to be restricted to bed rest with bathroom privileges with assistance. When the patient’s daughter comes to visit, she tells you that sometimes her mother has urinary incontinence due to her inability to walk to the bathroom by herself when theurge to urinate occurs. She wants to know if her mother can have a urinary catheter inserted to prevent accidents.

1. How would you respond to the daughter’s request for her mother to have a urinary catheter inserted?

2. Brainstorm nursing actions that you could implement to avoid urinary incontinence for this patient.