Abstract:

Background: Documentation in health facility to patients with indwelling urinary catheter is important to know the time of inserting catheter and time of removing, and what needs to be documented when the patient is with an indwelling urinary catheter. This is important to avoid the patients staying long with the catheter which may succumb to nosocomial infections. The aim was to explore the knowledge and practice of documentation in patients with indwelling urinary catheter among health care providers at BMC.

Methodology: Descriptive cross-sectional study design was done which included nurses working at Surgery and medical wards whereby catheterization done at BMC with structured questionnaire was utilized in this study using simple randomly selection. Data was analyzed using the SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequencies were generated.

Results: Majority of the participants, 81.5% responded that acute urinary retention and bladder obstruction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia to be leading indications for catheterization. Nearly all participants, 98.2% responded that aseptic technique with sterile equipment is the proper technique for catheter insertion. Most of the nurses, 80.8%, document in patient’s file.

Conclusion and recommendation: Majority of the nurses had the knowledge pertaining to the indications for catheterization. The most common indications being due to acute urinary retention and bladder obstruction. Nearly all the nurses were aware that aseptic technique with sterile equipment is a proper technique for catheter insertion. Majority of the nurses documented mostly in patient’s file. Nurses should access to the computer registration system; most do not have passwords and therefore end up using files to record patient's information.