Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most frequent and serious issue withurinarycatheters. Aim: was to evaluate the effect of implementing educational programs on reducingurinary tract infections among patients with urinary catheterization. Methods: Quasi-experimental
design was used. Setting: the study was conducted at the urology department at Benha UniversityHospitals. subjects: all available nurses (30) working in the urology department and a purposivesample of 60 adult patients in need of urethral catheterization for more than seven days, Equallydivided randomly into (30) a study group and (30) control group. Three tools were usedfor datacollection including nurses’ knowledge assessment questionnaire, nurses' practice observational
checklist regarding the care of long-term urinary catheters, and patients’ social and biomedical data. The results: The control group's positive urine culture rate (86%) was greater than the studygroup'srate (6.6 percent ). The outcomes also showed that nurses' understanding and practice of catheterpatient care considerably increased following the implementation of the nursing education program. Conclusion: The implementation of the nursing training program reduces the incidence of urinarytract infections in catheterized patients, and there are notable variations in the knowledgeandperformance of nurses before and after its implementation. The study recommended that toavoidcatheter-related urinary tract infections, establish treatment guidelines. A written trainingprogramon catheter use, insertion, removal, and maintenance should be provided and put into practice. Ensure you have the tools needed for sterile catheterization on hand. Make sure there are enoughskilled nurses and technical resources available to reduce catheter-related UTI occurrenceandpromote outcomes. |
