NR 449 Week 5 RUA; CAUTI Prevention and Nurse Protocols
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CAUTI Prevention and Nurse Protocols
Clinical Question
The focus of our group’s work is Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) CAUTIs affect any part of the urinary system because of the prolonged use of an indwelling urinary catheter. Topal et al. (2019) reported that CAUTIs were the most common hospital- acquired infections in the US. According to Gauron and Bigand (2021), the adverse effects of CAUTIs include a longer length of hospital stay, morbidity, and mortality. Lawrence et al. (2019) reported that Medicare and Medicaid Services do not cover CAUTI-relayed costs because most CAUTIs can be prevented easily. Consequently, hospitals have a considerable cost burden because treating each case of hospital-acquired CAUTIs is approximately $1000 (Lawrence et al., 2019). Moreover, Rahimi et al. (2019) reported that nosocomial CAUTIs lower the hospital’s rating score because most patients are likely to report not being satisfied with the quality of services received. Therefore, nurses must be held responsible for the health and well-being of their patients because they have an essential role in preventing CAUTIs.
The purpose of this paper is to interpret the two articles that were determined to be relevant to CAUTI prevention and CAUTI incidence reduction using a nurse-led protocol. The articles were identified using the following PICOT question: In the acute hospital patient population, how does nurse-driven protocol to remove indwelling urinary catheters, compared to the usual practice of physician discontinuation order, decrease the incidence of CAUTIs, over 12 weeks? One of the studies was performed by Abdelmoaty et al. (2022), while the other was conducted by Hernandez et al. (2019)......... Continue
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