Objective 2: Prevent the Incidence of CAUTIs and Associated Implications

Objective 2: Prevent the Incidence of CAUTIs and Associated Implications

CAUTIs account for the bigger percentage of UTIs in hospitals and affect over one million people yearly in the United States (Gomila et al., 2019). The implementation of this project is expected to help in eliminating CAUTIs and prevent them from recurring. The project will also help in preventing associated complications such as kidney damage, sepsis, and the risk of contracting other secondary bacteremias.

Objective 3: Minimization of Costs Associated with CAUTIs

CAUTIs are associated with various costly implications such as increasing patient length of hospital stay, additional healthcare expenses, lower productivity, and increase patient morbidity and mortality (Mong et al., 2022). This project seeks to empower nurses to avoid the overuse of urinary catheters and use EBP protocols to remove catheters. This will help in the prevention of CAUTIs and the associated severe economic consequences.

Objective 4: Enhance Catheter Use

CAUTIs are linked to poor catheter removal practices and catheter overuse (Gomila et al., 2019). The implementation of this project is expected to help nurses reduce the overuse of urinary catheters and also empower them with knowledge of removing catheters based on nurse-driven EBP protocols.