The Role of Nursing Practice to Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Units

Abstract

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is considered as the foremost common hospital-acquired
risk associated with patients on a ventilator, and there are numerous avoidance techniques that can
be connected by Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses in arrange to diminish the hazard of frequency of VAP in
ICU.
This paper aimed to evaluate theeffect of the nursing role, applying guidelines and adherence of health
professionals to VAP bundle prevention strategies in an attempt to decrease rates of VAP in mechanically
ventilated adult patients. An electronic searching was performed in thedatabases: Google Scholar, Research
Gate and PubMed. The review paper showed that the applying of VAP bundle prevention as daily component
of nursing care among ICU nursesin the ventilated patient can decrease incidence rate of VAP; and can be
considered as a sensitive indicator that reflects patient outcomes. There are many factors among nurses for
not adhering to these guidelines which may affect on patient’s health outcome. This review paper provides
nurses working in ICU with efficient knowledge regarding nurses’ care guidelines to prevent the incidence
rate of VAP in ICU.Further study is necessary in order to verify agood understanding and confirm the factors
that may affect the development and increase incidence rate of VAP.