Indwelling Urinary Tract Infection

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“An intellectual research critique is a careful, complete examination of a study to judge its strengths, weaknesses, logical links, meaning and significance” (nursing planet, 2013).In this paper this writer is going to perform a critique analysis on a research article named as “Using criteria –based reminder to reduce use of indwelling urinary catheters and decrease urinary tract infections” written by Chen, et.al. This article is published in March, 2013 by American journal of critical care. According to Chen, et.al, the duration of urinary catheter places an important role in developing UTI’s. The main aim of this study was to decide whether a reminder approaches help to decrease the urinary tract infection by reducing the duration of the …show more content…

Likewise they had 88% achievement rate in pulling out the indwelling urinary catheters with mediation by day seven. There was a 53% lessening in the frequency of CAUTIs per 1000 patient-days and a 40% decrease in the rate of CAUTIs per 1000 catheter-days with the utilization of the update procedure. According to the study, with the assistance of a reminder sheet there was a diminishment in the utilization of such catheters and this decreased the recurrence of CAUTIs in patients with respiratory ailment. This emphasizes the vital role the nurses play in the care of urinary catheters. It is imperative to make an assessment tool for urinary catheter evacuation. On the premise of this evaluation, medical caretakers would remind doctors to take out patient's urinary catheter. This study has numerous limitations. Catheter insertion procedure is different in each unit of the hospital. On the other hand, this bias impact was not huge in light of the fact that with as specific end goal to create standard catheterization method and consideration measures, the study was directed either in a hospital unit or in the RICU. With a specific end goal to diminish the occurrence of CAUTIs, reducing the incorrect use of indwelling urinary catheters ought to be focused, and catheter use must be frequently checked. The study results propose that the criteria-based reminder method is valuable when the avoidance of CAUTI is a veritable desire. Nurses can assume a critical part in catheter consideration and in reducing the threat of infection. The researchers recommends future study by using more effective interventions to prevent the occurrence of

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