The effectiveness of care bundle approach on the prevention of catheter associated urinary tract infection (cauti) among the patient with indwelling catheter in selected hospitals at Puducherry.

Objective: The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Care Bundle Approach on prevention of CAUTI among experimental group, to compare the effectiveness of Care Bundle Approach on CAUTI among experimental and control group, to associate the selected demographic and clinical variables with CAUTI among the patients on experimental and control group. Material and methods: A quasi experimental post test only control group design was adopted for the study. A total number of 60 patients (30 in control group & 30 in experimental group) were selected for this study by using purposive sampling technique. All subjects are evaluated by observational checklist comprising of demographic variables, clinical variable performa and UTI assessment checklist consists of clinical parameter, urine analysis and urine culture. Results and conclusion: The results predicts that in post test, in experimental group by following Care Bundle Approach the majority of 18 (60%) and in control group by following the routine care majority 11 (36.7%) had no growth in urine culture. The results shows that in experimental group on post test the clinical variable decreased hemoglobin level has shown statistically significant association with urine culture with chi square value p<0.01level. The result shows that on comparison of type of organism E.coli about 11 (36.67%) is found to be a common organism on development of CAUTI. The incidence of CAUTI is high among the patient with decreased hemoglobin level and with positive urine sugar. The researcher concluded that the Care Bundle Approach for prevention of CAUTI is clinically significant but not statistically significant.