Background: Japan’s super-aged society faces increasing nursing-care demand and diversified care settings, while staffing shortages hinder efforts to maintain and standardize safe nursing skills. Indwelling urinary catheters are widely used, particularly among older adults, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) remain a common and clinically important complication. Although extended reality (XR) tools enable safe, repeatable simulation, smart glasses–based training materials for indwelling urinary catheter care remain underdeveloped.
Objective: To develop smart glasses–based educational materials for indwelling urinary catheter care focused on infection prevention from a medical safety perspective.
Methods: Literature searches were conducted using Ichushi-Web, PubMed, and Google Scholar to identify articles published since 2000 on medical safety related to indwelling urinary catheters. Key infection-prevention considerations were extracted and organized into a training module. The system consisted of an Android smartphone, smart glasses (EPSON BT-40), and bone-conduction earphones (Shokz OpenComms2).
Results/Conclusion: The material emphasizes aseptic and clean skills during catheter insertion and management, maintenance of a closed drainage system, appropriate hygiene, and timely catheter removal or replacement when indicated. It also targets prevention of human errors (e.g., omission of infection-control steps due to inexperience or during busy periods). First-person perspective video and repeated practice in near-clinical conditions are designed to support experiential learning and mastery of CAUTI-prevention measures. Further work should examine effective implementation strategies to integrate these materials into diverse educational and clinical settings.
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number JP23K02822).

Authors:
Momoko Miura, Keio University, Japan
Chieko Fujii, Keio University, Japan

About the Presenter(s)
Momoko Miura is an Assistant Professor of Fundamental Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care, Keio University, Japan. Her recent work focuses on cross-cultural nursing and the use of technology in nursing skills education.

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