Assessing nurse's knowledge regarding patient care bundles for prevention of catheter-related urinary tract infection

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Luisa
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Silva Martins, Matilde Delmina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.48492/servir0208.33822
• topic: Infecções Urinárias; ITU; Cateteres; Cateteres Urinários; Cuidados de Enfermagem; Urinary Tract Infections; ITU; Catheters; Urinary Catheters; Nursing Care; Infecciones Urinarias; ITU; Catéteres; Catéteres Urinarios; Atención de Enfermería

Introduction: Urinary catheter-associated bladder infections (UCAVI), related to healthcare, are the main cause of morbidity, increased hospitalization days and costs. The Directorate-General for Health has created the "Intervention Bundle for the Prevention of Bladder Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection" in order to standardize nursing interventions. Objective: Analyzing nurses' knowledge of the Bundle of Interventions for the Prevention of Bladder Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in a Local Health Unit in northern Portugal Methodology: Analytical cross-sectional study. Conducted on 103 nurses from a Local Health Unit, who answered a questionnaire via Google forms. The study received a favorable opinion from the ethics committee (no. 5/2023) Results: Knowledge was moderate (74.8%). There was a greater predominance of females (86.4%), average age 41.66 years, married (58.3%), university graduates (74.8%), nurses (63.1%), open-ended individual employment contracts (62.1%), average length of service 16.20 years, hospital as place of work (87.4%), shift work (85.4%), training in the prevention of IUACV (69.9%), knowledge of internal regulations (92.2%). Gender, professional category and training are associated with certain elements of the bundle.