How To Insert Foley Catheter. Insert the catheter slowly. Hold the catheter in your dominate hand and slowly insert in into the urinary meatus or the small opening on the top of your penis. Your penis should be at an angle of 60 to 90 degrees. Make sure to discard the swab from the sterile area immediately.
He will then put on sterile medical gloves. Using the sterile dominant hand pick up the catheter with a gloved hand. Hold the catheter in your dominate hand and slowly insert in into the urinary meatus or the small opening on the top of your penis. If the patient is male hold the penis and insert the catheter into the urethral opening. Clean the area using one swipe per swab. Insert the catheter slowly.
Make sure to discard the swab from the sterile area immediately.
Insert the catheter slowly. Hold the catheter in your dominate hand and slowly insert in into the urinary meatus or the small opening on the top of your penis. Hold the penis in your non dominant hand and gently pull upward perpendicular to the patient s body. Bard no longer recommends inflating or pre testing the balloon prior to insertion and that supplies is placed betwee. If the patient is male hold the penis and insert the catheter into the urethral opening. Insert the catheter slowly.