eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Nursing Research 2378-5586 2020-06-21 8 4 477 482 10.12691/ajnr-8-4-8 AJNR2020848 article Ghada Hassan Ahmed ghada_hassan24@yahoo.com 1 Ghaydaa Ahmed Shehata 2 Lecturer of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt Professor of neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt Background: Infection of the urinary tract attributed to the use of an indwelling urinary catheter is one of the most common infections acquired by patients at health care centers. Aim: The primary aim of this study was to assess effect of catheter care maintenance bundle on reducing the incidence of urinary tract infection among catheterized patients. Setting: The study was conducted in the neurological department, affiliated to Assuit University Hospital Methods: This study was designed as interventional prospective study on purposive nonprobability sixty adult patients (experimental and control) undergoing urinary catheterization were included in this study. Results: There was a positive correlation between catheter care maintenance bundle and occurrence of urinary tract infection (P< 0.003). Conclusion: Implementation of catheter care maintenance bundle intervention resulted in a reduction in the incidence of urinary tract infection among catheterized patients. Recommendations: Application of the catheter care maintenance bundle at all the settings that deal with urinary catheterization to decrease the infection rate. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajnr/8/4/8/ajnr-8-4-8.pdf catheter care maintenance bundle incidence urinary tract infection and catheterized patients