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Abstract
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is widespread Health Acquired Infection (HAI) that influence patient’s welfare and duration of hospitalization. Aim: Determine effect of implementing nursing guidelines on decreasing CAUTI in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in ICU at Suez Canal University Hospital (SCUH) in Ismailia Governorate. Sample: A convenience of 33 ICU nurses and a purposive sample of 92 patients divided into two groups (pretest and post-test). Tools: Three tools utilized in this study; nurses’ knowledge assessment questionnaire, nurses’ practice checklists regarding CAUTI prevention guidelines and patient assessment tool. Result: The nurses total score for both knowledge and practice improved significantly after implementation of CAUTI preventive guidelines (p-value= 000, .02) respectively. Also, nurses’ knowledge and practice founded to be correlated positively to each other during both pretest phase and post-test phase (p-value= 000, .006) respective. Improving nurses´ practice to about one-fold result in decreasing CAUTI from 54.48 to 31.9 per1000 catheter day after implementation of CAUTI preventive guidelines. Conclusion: Implementing CAUTI preventive guidelines guide for decreasing CAUTI rate, enhancing nurses’ knowledge and practice in SCUH-ICU. Recommendation: Disseminate the developed booklet in the ICU as a standard of nursing care especially to newly enrolled nurses.