5. What are the obstacles or barriers to CAUTI prevention?
Meanwhile, the researcher facilitated the core working group in observing the practices of HCWs regarding CAUTI prevention, and the ICWNs collected CAUTI rates in their settings.
3. The researcher facilitated a small group meeting with the core working group to freely discuss issues, share ideas based on collected data, and to verify information received from focus group discussions and in-depth interview of two physicians. The researcher and the core working group used these data for situational analysis to identify barriers, problems and the solutions regarding CAUTI issues. The results from the situational analysis were verified by the core working group. The findings from situational analysis were described as follows (the details of the finding will be presented in chapter 4).
1.) Inappropriate practices in CAUTI prevention
2.) Not up-to-date CAUTI prevention guidelines
3.) Inadequate knowledge in CAUTI prevention
4.) Lack of awareness in CAUTI prevention
5.) Ineffective communication and collaboration between and among multidisciplinary team
6.) No continuous monitoring system on the practices of HCWs regarding CAUTI prevention
7.) Constraints for CAUTI prevention
8.) Identified the solutions to solve these problems
4. Preparing for presenting the findings from situational analysis to the stakeholders, the researcher held a meeting with the core working group to identify the potential strategies to reduce CAUTI considering the results from situational analysis
In May 2010, the researcher held another meeting to present the data gained from situational analysis to the stakeholders including head nurses, nurse supervisors, and nurses from the study setting. The stakeholders proposed potential strategies and selected the evidence to be used as guidance for developing the tentative model. The systematic review of CDC and HIPPAC (2009) which was extracted from 249 studies was selected from the stakeholders’ consensus for the EBP to be used in this study.
5. The researcher translated the content of the selected EBP into Thai with the assistance of the core working group. The draft of EBP was approved and revised according to three experts’ suggestions from the Faculty of Nursing and two experts from the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. The final draft of EBP was distributed to the stakeholders including the hospital infection control physician, infection control nurse, the physician in the setting, and nurse supervisors. The last draft of EBP was then revised at the suggestions from the stakeholders.