To assess effectiveness of nursing interventions on prevention of urinary tract infection among patients with urinary catheters admitted at Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni

Abhishek Kashid; Rajendra Lamkhede

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

To assess effectiveness of nursing interventions on prevention of urinary tract infection among patients with urinary catheters admitted at Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni

Abhishek Kashid, Rajendra Lamkhede

Abstract :

A Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. The main etiologic agent is Escherichia coli. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of nursing intervention on prevention of UTI. To correlate the findings with selected clinical characteristics. Methods and Materials: A descriptive study with cross sectional approach was used. The study was a one group post-test research design. The sample consisted of 30 patients including urinary tract infection with urinary catheters. Results: The study revealed that most (87%) of the urinary tract infection was male and remaining (13%) were female. More than half (63%) of them medical and surgical illness. Majority (85%) had cystitis as a type of urinary tract infection due to road traffic accident, in relation to all the manifestation higher (100%) of them had acidic nature, clinical sign and bacteria. It was evident from the result that most of them 10-40% had good recovery. Discussion: This study created the complete spectrum of urinary tract infection. The finding of the study have shown that urinary tract infection were common among older adult with male predominance. Majority had acidic nature of urine; higher percent of them had burning micturition, fever, pain; significant had edema and tenderness. Higher percentage had bacteria, lymphocytes in urine and significant pus cells, RBCs and WBCs. It was evident from the results that most of the urinary tract infection patients had good recovery.