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Abstract: Objective: this study aimed to evaluate of nurse's practice regarding indwelling catheter in Al-Najaf hospitals and to find out the relationship between nursing practice and their demographic data. Methodology: Descriptive evolutional study (Quantitative) was carried out to evaluate the Nurses practice regarding to indwelling catheter in Al-Najaf City/ Health Directorate of Al- Najaf Al-Ashraf / Al-Sadder medical city and Al-Zahraa teaching hospitals .The study was carried out from January 1st, 2018 up to March 20th, 2018. A non-probability (purposive) sampling technique was used consisting of (60) female nurses that perform indwelling catheter procedure. Data collected through using of a well-designed questionnaire consist of two parts including, Part I: Socio-demographic Characteristics: This part consists of (7) items,( including gender, age, and marital status, level of education, occupational status, residency, and socio-economic status) and Part II: indwelling catheter insertion checklist, that consisting of 21 questions about indwelling catheter insertion. Result: The findings of the present study indicate that the overall evaluations for nurse’s practices are good. In addition there are non- significant relationship between the nurses' practices and their demographic data except with their economic status at p-value less than 0.05. Conclusions: It is concluded that most of the nurses have good practices related indwelling catheter procedure. Recommendations: Based on study conclusion, its need for a conducting and developing catheterization research that may contribute in reducing infectious problems of patient who need temporary or permanent for urinary catheter. Involving the nursing staff in educational