Background: The placement of a urinary catheter is the single most important predisposing factor for Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections, which causes significant morbidity in hospitalized patients, including pain, fever, and malaise. Urinary tract infections are responsible for around 13,000 fatalities each year. Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections complications lead to an increase in length of stay, patient pain, higher healthcare expenses, and death. Urinary tract infections are the second most frequent illness after respiratory infections. This has an impact on patients' health outcomes and periods of hospital stay. The aim of this study is to improve nurses' knowledge and practices by involving them in an educational program after assessing nurses' knowledge regarding preventing male catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Methods: A pre-experimental design had been applied with the use of one group pre-test/post-test design of samples of 45 nurses to assess of nursing staff's knowledge, and practices toward the prevention of indwelling catheter-associated urinary tract infection in Al-Diwaniyah Teaching Hospital. The reliability of the questionnaire was achieved through a pilot study and then presented to experts to prove its validity.
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