1

Literature Evaluation Table

Student Name:

Change Topic : This change project topic is on nurse-driven protocols that will decrease

catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI’s). Within a hospital setting many adult

patients develop a catheter associated urinary infection due to catheters being left in for long

period of times and not reassessed for the needs of the catheter. This increases the risk of catheter

associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI’s) for patients and could prolong their stay in the

hospital increasing hospital cost and turning the infection into a hospital acquired infections.

Implementing a nurse driven protocol for the removal of urinary catheters and management

versus current practices will help reduce catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI).

Using an improved protocol for the use and need of these catheters can not only reduce the

length of time the catheters are left in place, but it can help reduce the number of catheter

infections in patients throughout when the protocol is used correctly. Possible even decreasing

the number of catheters that are used for non-appropriate reasons for catheter placement. These

articles help support the nurse-driven protocol and the reasons for CAUTI’s within a hospital

setting.

Criteria Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4

Author, Journal (PeerReviewed), and

Permalink or Working

Link to Access Article

Fox, C.,

Wavra, T.,

Drake, D. A.,

Mulligan, D.,

& Bader, M. K.

(2015). Use of

a patient hand

hygiene

protocol to

reduce

hospitalacquired

infections and

improve

nurses’ hand

washing.

American

Journal of

Critical Care,

24(3), 216-224.

Hernandez, M.,

King, A., &

Stewart, L.

(2019).

Catheterassociated

urinary tract

infection

(CAUTI)

prevention and

nurses’

checklist

documentation

of their

indwelling

catheter

management

practices.

Nursing Praxis

in New

Ferguson, A.

(2018).

Implementing a

CAUTI

Prevention

Program in an

Acute Care

Hospital

Setting. Urolog

ic Nursing

https://

lopes.idm.oclc.

org/login?

url=https://

search.ebscoho

st.com/

login.aspx?

direct=true&db

Letica-Kriegel,

A. S.,

Salmasian, H.,

Vawdrey, D.

K., & Perotte,

R. (2019).

Identifying the

risk factors for

catheterassociated

urinary tract

infections: a

large crosssectional study

of six hospitals.

BMJ Open,

9(2).

https://

 1 / 2

LITERATURE EVALUATION TABLE

http://

ajcc.aacnjourna

ls.org/content/

24/3/216.short

Zealand, 35(1),

29.

https://

lopes.idm.oclc.

org/login?

url=https://

search.ebscoho

st.com/

login.aspx?

direct=true

&db=edo&AN

=137860401&s

ite=edslive&scope=sit

e&custid=s833

3196&

groupid=main

&profile=eds1

=ccm

&AN=1336459

74&site=edsive

&scope=site&c

ustid=s8333

196&groupid=

main&profile=

eds1

bmjopen.bmj.c

om/content/

9/2/

e022137.abstra

ct

Article Title and Year

Published

Use of a

Patient Hand

Hygiene

Protocol to

Reduce

HospitalAcquired

Infections and

Improve

Nurses’ Hand

Washing

(2015)

Catheterassociated

urinary tract

infection

(CAUTI)

prevention and

nurses’

checklist

documentation

of their

indwelling

catheter

management

practices.

(2019)

Implementing a

CAUTI

Prevention

Program in an

Acute Care

Hospital

Setting. (2018)

Identifying the

risk factors for

catheterassociated

urinary tract

infections

(2019)

2

Powered by qwivy(www.qwivy.org)

 2 / 2