Efficacy of the ‘Long‐term Urinary Catheter Management Training Program’: a pilot study

In home-care patients with urinary catheters (hereafter, ‘catheters’), the indwelling periods are sometimes prolonged and can cause various complications. To educate visiting nurses about long-term catheter management, we conducted ‘The Long-term Urinary Catheter Management Training Program for Visiting Nurses’ (hereafter, ‘the training program’). We investigated the efficacy of the training program in the present pilot study. The aim of the study was to verify the efficacy of the training program. Forty-one participants completed a questionnaire survey before and after the training program. The training program's efficacy was verified on the basis of three indices: satisfaction of learning needs, learning achievement and usefulness for visiting nurses. In the satisfaction of learning needs index, more than 50·0% of training participants answered ‘Yes’ for all program content. The participants answered the same questions about long-term catheter management before and after the training program to assess their learning achievement. The number of correct answers was significantly higher in the post-training survey than in the pre-training survey, and the number of correct answers increased for 75·6% of participants. In the usefulness for visiting nurses index, 50·0% or more participants answered ‘Yes’ for all topics but one. The results of this pilot study indicate that the training program was basically effective in educating a relatively small number of participating visiting nurses about long-term catheter management from a cognitive perspective. However, ‘number of participants,’ ‘method for examining learning achievement,’ ‘number of goals in the program’ and ‘education method’ require improvement.