Tips for Skill 17

This skill will require you to collect urine samples using both catheterization and free catch methods. Upon completion you will be able to place urinary catheters in male canine patients (females optional), and collect urine from different species using catheterization and free catch.

Tips for materials that need to be submitted:

• Video of student performing urinary catheterization on a male canine patient

  • You need to include all the steps under the criteria

  • This is a sterile procedure, you should be using aseptic technique

  • You should be wearing sterile gloves not exam gloves, exam gloves are not sterile just clean

  • You can have an assistant extrude the penis for you

  • You need to obtain a urine sample with your catheter placed, do not submit the video if you were not successful in obtaining one

Accepted Levels of Sedation for Catheterization:

• Awake, light to heavy sedation, anesthesia