Rasmussen Hospital Policy SWOT Analysis and Recommendations
A year ago, Rasmussen Hospital implemented a policy to ensure that the insertion of a
urethral catheter was properly completed. According to the policy, it wa
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Rasmussen Hospital Policy SWOT Analysis and Recommendations
A year ago, Rasmussen Hospital implemented a policy to ensure that the insertion of a
urethral catheter was properly completed. According to the policy, it was the responsibility of
registered nurses to ensure that the completion of all urethral catheter insertions was done under
sterile technique. Among the requirements of the policy was that each insertion was to be done in
the presence of Registered Nurses. While one of them was to complete the insertion, the other
one was to assist and observe to ensure that the sterile technique was not broken. Any breakage
in the technique required that the first Registered Nurse immediately stopped the procedure to
pave the way for their counterpart. Documentation in the Electronic Health Record would be the
last part of the policy. However, regardless of the implementation of the policy, Rasmussen
hospital is still experiencing difficulties in the minimization of the Catheter-Associated Urinary
Tract Infection (CAUTI) rates. Worryingly the hospital is currently facing financial
consequences as the rates of CAUTI keep increasing. Consequently, this paper reviews the
policy using SWOT analysis, and from the analysis gives the appropriate recommendations for
change.
Strengths
The policy of completing urethral catheter insertions under sterile techniques had various
strengths to Rasmussen hospital.
Firstly, the procedure can be performed on both male and female patients. The policy thus
placed the hospital a step ahead of the other hospital with a policy that could be used in
treating both male and female patients with CAU
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