RE: Discussion – Week 4

RE: Discussion – Week 4

 As Intensive Care Nurse, more often, we use urinary catheters for our convenience. I have seen my fellow nurses keeping a patient’s indwelling catheters until the Charge Nurse starts asking why the patient still has the catheter. Last month, one of the travel nurses hooked the indwelling Foley catheter to suction. I chose this topic on CAUTI’s to create awareness and educate my fellow nurses on using the foley for shorter periods and how to use them. My PICOT question is,  ‘How can members of the healthcare team prevent CAUTI from occurring inpatient?’

I am using three different nursing databases using Boolean terms; my first search word is ‘Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection.’ My second search word, ‘Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection’ or ‘CAUTI,’ to find different ways to frame a concept, expand my search and increase results (Elson, 2020). My third search word, ‘Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection prevention and ‘Evidence-based Practice’ to find different ways to frame a concept, expand my search, and increase results. ‘Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections’ and ‘Evidence-Based Practice’ connect different concepts and limit my results. These terms will increase the rigor of my research and provide an accurate representation of the inpatient population studied in my research (Elson, 2020) .’I will be using CINAHL plus with full text, Medline with full text, and ProQuest nursing databases to conduct my research. My researched articles have been published in the last five years to remain updated on changing evidence.

According to CINAHL plus with full text, there are 403 researched articles using my first search word, 419 using my second search word, and 7articles using my third search word. My second research database is Medline with complete text; there were 512 researched articles using my first search term, 555 using my second search term, and two articles on my third. The third database I used was ProQuest; there were 288 articles using my first search term, 302 on my second, and ten on my third search term.  In conclusion, each time I was specific on my research terms using ‘Catheter-associated Urinary tract Infection prevention’ and ‘Evidence-Based Practice,’ the research articles were fewer.

References

CINAHL  Plus with full text, (2021)

https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?vid=0&sid=57b1227c-937d-4bfc-9689-36f0af8bc211%40redis