Could legal requirements in nursing practice trigger actions that would change the rates of urinary tract infections? A case study in Brazil

Publication date: Available online 7 March 2017
Source:American Journal of Infection Control
Author(s): Clesnan Mendes-Rodrigues, Eliana Borges Silva Pereira, Renata Lemos de Sousa Neto, Jaqueline Resende, Astrídia Marília de Souza Fontes
We evaluated the influence of a Brazilian resolution, published in 2013, that restricts the performing of urinary catheterization to nurses, as opposed to others from different nursing professional categories, on indicators of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in an intensive care unit. The resolution triggered actions such as the implementation of protocols and nursing staff training that led to behavior changes related to the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates.



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