Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common and important complication of the use of indwelling catheters. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of implement nurses guidelines implementation among patient with long term urinary catheter on the incidence of urinary tract infections. The study was carried out in the urology department at Benha University Hospital using a quasi-experimental research design. The study included 60 adult patients in need for urethral catheterization for not less than seven days, and free from any manifestations suggestive of UTI on admission. Equally divided rondomly into a study group and a control group. Also, it included the 30 available nurses working in urology department at Benha university hospital. Three tools were developed and used for data collection, within. The nursing care guidelines were developed after reviewing related literature, rendered for nurses through session and implemented to study group patients. Research hypothesis; Nurses scheduled for guidelines sessions will gain higher knowledge and exhibit better practice mean scores than before. Patients scheduled for guidelines implementation will show decrease the incidence of catheter associated urinary tract infection. The result implies that, Positive urine culture was higher in the control group (86 %) compared to 6.6% in the study group. The result also implies that after the application of educational guidelines, nurses’ knowledge, and practice toward the care of patients with urinary catheter have been improved significantly. There were no significant correlations between studied nurses’ knowledge regarding their age’s pre, immediate and 3 months post guidelines implementation: There were a statistical significant correlations between studied nurses’ knowledge , practice, educational level and years of experience
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