Improving Nurses’ Knowledge about Prevention of Catheter Acquired Urinary Tract Infections in Intensive Care Units-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Improving Nurses’ Knowledge about Prevention of Catheter Acquired Urinary Tract Infections in Intensive Care Units

Published:2022-02-27 Issue:E Volume:10 Page:638-642
ISSN:1857-9655
Container-title:Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
language:
Short-container-title:Open Access Maced J Med Sci

Author:

Abdelmoaty Alshaimaa Mohamed,Abdelghany Eman O.^ORCID,Soliman Mona,Kenawy Ahmed M.,Saleh Doa’a A.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Lack of knowledge about causes and strategies to prevent catheter-acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) requires an intervention that focuses on providing all evidence-based information to decrease the incidence of CAUTIs in admitted intensive care units (ICU) patients. Improving the nurses’ knowledge will eventually help in the reduction of CAUTIs. AIM: We aimed to investigate the improving nurses’ knowledge about prevention of catheter acquired urinary tract infections in intensive care units. METHODS: The present study is a h ealth system-operational research, pre-test–post-test design with a control arm study. The study was conducted in two ICU units in one of the University hospitals, Cairo, Egypt, involving a total sample of 42 nurses. Self-administered questionnaires were used to assess nurses’ knowledge about CAUTIs. The intervention was implemented through on job educational training sessions to nursing staff. Cochran Q was used to test the effect of the intervention on a satisfactory level of knowledge. RESULTS: Knowledge score improved from 61.4 ± 14.1 in pre-test to 90.5 in the early post-test (EP) test done after 1 week to 91.3 in late post-test ( LP) done after 1 month among nurses of the intervention ICU (p < 0.001). The percentage of nurses reporting a satisfactory level of knowledge significantly increased from 13.3% in the pre-test to 90% and 93.3% in follow-up (EP and LP, respectively) in the intervention ICU (p < 0.05) CONCLUSION: The implemented training and education strategy used were effectively improved ICU nurses’ knowledge concerning CAUTI.

Publisher

Scientific Foundation SPIROSKI

Subject

General Medicine

Reference20 articles.

1. Noor A, Ishaq AR, Jafri L, Jabeen F, Rani R, Kiani BH, et al. Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs) a New Threat for World; U-Turn from Recovery to Death. Campylobacter [Working Title]; 30 April, 2021. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/76534. [Last accessed on 2022 Feb 12].

2. Snyder MD, Priestley MA, Weiss M, Hoegg CL, Plachter N, Ardire S, et al. Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Crit Care Nurse. 2020;40(1):e12-7. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006039/. [Last accessed on 2022 Feb 12].

3. Selim SM, Rashad A, El-Seoud A, Allah A, Mohamed H, Salah A, et al. Effect of infection control program on catheter associated urinary tract infection in Intensive Care Units At Zagazig University Hospital. Zagazig Univ Med J. 2018;24(5):420-36. Available from: https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/article_13268.html. [Last accessed on 2022 Feb 12].

4. Clayton JL. Indwelling urinary catheters: A pathway to health care-associated infections. AORN J. 2017;105(5):446-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.02.013 PMid:28454610

5. See I, Lessa FC, ElAta OA, Hafez S, Samy K, El-Kholy A, et al. Incidence and pathogen distribution of healthcare-associated infections in pilot hospitals in Egypt. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013;34(12):1281-8. Available from: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/abs/incidence-and-pathogen-distribution-of-healthcareassociated-infections-in-pilot-hospitals-in-egypt/1B4D6357A08DADF2BC1027FA11C771D8. [Last accessed on 2022 Feb 12].