Knowledge and attitude of nursing officers regarding Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Care Bundle: A Narrative Review
Vaibhav Bharadwaj and Dr. Jasmin
One of the common cause of prolonged hospitalization, is hospital acquired infection (HAI), which is evident of 30 to 40% prevalence. Among all kind of HAI, the commonest type is urinary tract infection and that is also catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). One of important strategy to prevent this infection is known as CAUTI care bundle. This is a group of evidence-based intervention implemented together to prevent CAUTI. Hence, this is very essential that the nurses caring catheter patients then they must be well aware about such evidenced based preventive strategy to prevent happening of CAUTI. To address this concern, this review aimed to knowledge and attitude of nursing officers regarding Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Care Bundle. This was a narrative review, here we have gathered information in a very systematic way. The electronic data base such as ProQuest, Embase, PubMed, PsycARTICLES, EBSCO, ResearchGate, EORTC, Scopus, Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC), and Allied Health Literature (CINHAL) were searched and article published in between from 2010 to 2024 were identified. A total 977 articles were received from these search engines and based on systematic scrutinizing process a total of 9 articles were included in the review. Reviewed study’s findings suggested that staff nurses are having inadequate level of knowledge and neutral attitude towards adopting such CAUTI care bundle practice. The study concluded with that there is huge need to develop some evidence based intervention which will enhance knowledge and attitude of staff nurses regarding CAUTI care bundle.
Vaibhav Bharadwaj, Dr. Jasmin. Knowledge and attitude of nursing officers regarding Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Care Bundle: A Narrative Review. Int J Adv Res Nurs 2025;8(2):506-509. DOI: 10.33545/nursing.2025.v8.i2.G.581