Volume 26 , Issue 1 , June 2024 , Pages 47-57
Dyar Mohammed Hussein 1 ; Ismael Hama Ameen Aghaways 2
1 Teaching Hospital for Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
2 Fundamental of Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
Background: Urethral catheterization is a vital basic skill which not learnt
properly will lead to numerous complications, Objectives: to assess nurses’
knowledge and practice regarding aseptic technique procedure of urinary
catheterization, Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design
study utilized to assess nurses’ knowledge and practice regarding aseptic technique
procedure of urinary catheterization at Shar Teaching Hospital, a non-probability
(convenient) sampling was used to select the study participants, the study sample
included (100) nurses those working in Shar Teaching Hospital, the study was
conducted from September, 2022 to July, 2023. Data were collected using a selfadministered questionnaire and observational checklist, Study instruments consist
of three parts, first one the nurse information tool, which consists of questions
about the demographic characteristics of the nurse, second one constructed to
evaluate nurses’ knowledge about urinary catheterization. The third one consists
of observational checklist about nurses’ practices related to urinary catheterization
procedure, Result: the results demonstrate that statistically significant associations
were found between nurses' knowledge regarding aseptic technique in urinary
catheterization procedure of the study sample with years of nurses’ experience and
graduation level (p-value=0.034, 0.044), Also, consequences show that no
statistically significant relations were found between nurses' knowledge with all
other socio demographic characteristics except gender that the results demonstrate
that statistically significant associations were found between nurses' practice with
nurse gender (p-value=0.034)m There was statistically significant correlation
between knowledge and practice that correlation (R) value was (0.043).
Conclusions: Overall, we observed at Shar Teaching Hospital that: more than half
of nurses had a fair level of knowledge and practice toward urinary catheterization
procedure that adhered to the published guidelines, there were significant
associations between nurses' knowledge and years of nurse experience and degree,
according to capacity building through training programs for knowledge and
practice further about urinary catheterization is advised.