IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bdu/ojjhmn/v4y2019i6p17-28id1008.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factors Influencing Cauti Occurrence In One Of Egyptian University Hospitals Icu

Author

Listed:
  • Esraa Hassan Ismail
  • Abdelrhman Alshawadfy
  • Mona Hassan Magrabi
  • Wafaa Ismaiel Sherief

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine CAUTI occurrence rate and factors influencing CAUTI occurrence in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Suez Canal university hospital. Methodology: A total of 47 ICU patients for 312 bed days were collected through judgmental sample technique for two consecutive months. Data was gathered by; reviewing patients health records, observing patients daily and performing conditional urine cultures. Through two tools personal profile questioner and patient health status monitoring checklist. Finding: The CAUTI occurrence rate was 54.48 /1000 catheter day. CAUTI occurrence was correlated with; diabetes mellitus that was 40.4% of total participants, prolonged hospitalization, ICU admission and nursing maintenance of urinary catheter malpractices was correlated to CAUTI occurrence among ICU patient. Unique contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The present study recommends; enhancing early removal of IUC when no longer needed by application of reminding systems and nurse-driven protocol, use IUC alternatives to manage urinary incontinence and monitoring of urinary output, and implement CAUTI preventive bundles regarding IUC securement to the patient's body and to keep IUC tube patency.

Suggested Citation

  • Esraa Hassan Ismail & Abdelrhman Alshawadfy & Mona Hassan Magrabi & Wafaa Ismaiel Sherief, 2019. "Factors Influencing Cauti Occurrence In One Of Egyptian University Hospitals Icu," Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, IPR Journals and Book Publishers, vol. 4(6), pages 17-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:bdu:ojjhmn:v:4:y:2019:i:6:p:17-28:id:1008
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iprjb.org/journals/index.php/JHMN/article/view/1008
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bdu:ojjhmn:v:4:y:2019:i:6:p:17-28:id:1008. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chief Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iprjb.org/journals/index.php/JHMN/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.