The Effect of an Interactive Workshop on Nurses' Best Practice of Indwelling Urinary Catheter Management

Abstract

Introduction: Practitioners should play efforts to educate and train patients with the catheter and their caregiver's efforts to ensure best practice on patient outcomes and reduce urinary catheter complications. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of an interactive workshop on nurses' best practice of indwelling urinary catheter management on females Subjects and Methods: - A quasi-experimental descriptive study design was utilized to meet the aim of this study .This study was conducted at the National Training Institute affiliated to the Ministry of Health. at class rooms and lab –skills Sample: Participants were 40 female nurses working in different settings of health sectors. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection: 1- Self- administered questionnaire sheet: designed by the researchers, it consists of 2 parts: A–Socio-demographic data; as age, qualifications, years of experience, and attendance of urinary catheter care program before. B-A knowledge assessment sheet (pre/post workshop); designed to assess the level of nurse's knowledge about urinary catheter care and urinary system -2- a Standardized observational checklist (pre/post workshop) to assess the level of nurse's practice regarding catheter care. 3- Workshop evaluation sheet, designed to evaluate nurses' opinions towards workshop activities Results: the demographic characteristics of studied nurses. Mean age of the nurses under study was 28± 5.1, less than three quarters (72.5%) had a diploma in nursing, the mean of nurses years of experience was 8.6±5.0, and all of them (100%) did not attend any courses of training for urinary catheter care. There were statistically significant differences between the level of acquired nurses knowledge and between the level of acquired by nurses practice pre/post workshop implementation. There were also statistically significant differences between the total score of acquired nurses knowledge and practice pre/post workshop pre/post workshop (p <0.01).Nurses opinion towards the aim of the workshop, level of training room facilities, trainers, and total evaluation of workshop showed statistically significant differences with ( p<0.01). Conclusion: An active workshop could improve nurses' level of best practice regarding the indwelling urinary catheter through improving their level of knowledge and practice. Recommendation: Results obtained in the study will be valuable as a baseline for further researches and may improve the management of an indwelling urinary catheter, with the ultimate goal of enhancing high-quality patient-centered care.