Nurse Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Emergency Department
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2023
Publication Title
Human Factors in Healthcare
DOI
10.1016/j.hfh.2023.100052
Abstract
Emergency nurses are responsible for the care of mechanically ventilated patients. Evidence-based care to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) must be initiated in the Emergency Department (ED) instead of after arrival in the critical care areas of the hospital. Nurses were surveyed assessing VAP prevention measures education, knowledge, and confidence. Nurses reported seldom to never monitoring patient/ventilator interactions (44.6%) and troubleshooting alarms (seldom/never: 48.9%) with confidence levels minimal (29.1%), moderate (54.1%) and high (14.5%). Nurses are responsible for titrating sedation but report contacting a respiratory therapist (RT) for all other ventilator management. ED nurses may not have the same exposure to VAP prevention education as their counterparts in the critical care areas. Increasing ED nurse knowledge and confidence in VAP prevention is necessary as EDs increasingly care for mechanically ventilated patients.
Recommended Citation
Hendrix, Susan S., Haresh Rochani.
2023.
"Nurse Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Emergency Department."
Human Factors in Healthcare, 4: Elsevier.
doi: 10.1016/j.hfh.2023.100052
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nursing-facpubs/120
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty members, Susan Hendrix and Haresh Rochani co-authored Nurse Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Emergency Department.