Background:

This study analyzes an issue that has already been identified in daily nursing practice, having defined the theme “Nurses’ clinical practice for the prevention of central venous catheter (CVC)-related infections”.

Objectives:

To identify nurses’ clinical practice and level of knowledge about CVC maintenance.

Methodology:

Analytical and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative methodology. A data collection instrument was applied in December 2018, through the snowball sampling technique, to 272 randomly selected nurses.

Results:

The results indicated high levels of clinical practice (90.1%) and knowledge (85.7%) about CVC dressing change and CVC maintenance. A statistically significant association was also found between nurses’ clinical practices and level of knowledge.

Conclusion:

The study concluded that the nurses have a high level of knowledge about CVC maintenance guidelines for infection prevention and that they follow the majority of the guidelines of the bundles for prevention of CVC-related infections.

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