An APRN-Led Initiative for Improving Non-Licensed Personnel's Knowledge about Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care Residents.

URINARY tract infection prevention; COMPUTER software; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; STATISTICS; PROFESSIONS; READABILITY (Literary style); SAMPLE size (Statistics); UNLICENSED medical personnel; CONTINUING education units; PRE-tests & post-tests; T-test (Statistics); NURSES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NURSE practitioners; INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems; DATA analysis; LONG-term health care; ALGORITHMS

This Doctoral of Nursing Practice project demonstrated that an evidence-based urinary tract infection (UTI) prevention protocol for non-licensed personnel (n = 17) with training significantly improved their knowledge about UTIs among resi - dents aged 70 years and above living in a long-term care agency with three sites with a total of 29-beds located in southeast Georgia. Ancillary findings revealed that six weeks after the training, UTI occurrence declined from 21% to 31% per week to 0% per week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]