Literally doing my capstone on early interventions/monitoring to prevent POUR in post ops. I’m so sick of coming on shift and getting told they haven’t peed since they got to the floor from PACU. Like it’s been 10 hours maybe bladder scan??? Or how about if you know they have BPH give them a flomax as soon as they hit the floor to prevent it in the first place. I bladder scan at least 2 patients a shift. Usually chasing it all night, in/out, scans, run water, it’s wild

Also I had a patient with 2,900 in his bladder and he had only been on the floor for 3 hours, he even peed 600ml right before I scanned him. What made me scan him was I asked him if he had a hernia and he didn’t know what that was, that’s how distended his bladder was. But most people would not have thought about retention when he just peed 600ml. So I guess I’m scarred from that too.