Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection

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Assessment 2

Catheter associated Urinary Tract Infection

Patient safety indicator

Patient safety and quality care is very essential for the preventive, curative and promotive health care of the patient. Patient safety indicators are those indicators that help to provide care with patient safety. Patient safety indicators should always be measurable. There is a vital role of nurses and health care professionals in promoting and maintaining patient safety and quality care in the workplace. It is patient’s right to receive proper and safe health care from the health care team. Nurses are highly responsible for the improvement of health care as well as prevention and management of patient safety indicators through providing patient centered care and evidence based practice. There are different patient safety indicators such as nosocomial infections, fall injury, medication error, pressure sore, transfuse reaction and so on. These should be prevented, early diagnosed and given appropriate management by the health care team for providing patient safety. Here I am going to discuss about one of the patient safety indicators that is Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) and it is one of the most common nosocomial infection among others.

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is defined as the infection in any of the structures of urinary tract such as kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra (Balenine 2016). The urinary tract infection that is caused in any hospitals or health care centre or relating to any therapeutic treatment is said to be nosocomial urinary tract infection (Lacovelli et al., 2014). Nosocomial infection or Hospital acquired infection is defined as the infection which is obtained in the body due to h...

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...n acute health care where as more than 50% in chronic health care practice (Nicolle, 2014).

We as a nurse should be aware about the causes, risk factors and complications about the nosocomial infections associated to catheterization. As it is found in various surveys and research that the catheter associated UTI is one of the most common and frequently occurring type of hospital acquired infection due to various risk factors and causes, we have to follow the guidelines and strategies for the prevention and management of those infection. Catheter associated UTI is the patient safety indicator by which we can improve the health care and provide patient safety and quality care. There is a vital role of nurses in improving health care system which is possible by following the principles and guidelines of assessment, surveillance and nursing management of the patient.