September 18, 2025

Effect of a Nursing Practice Promotion Program in Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units of a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Middle-Income Country

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Quasi-experimental study shows increased adherence to VAP prevention guidelines in ICU, highlighting the need for addressing individual patient risk.

Compliance with VAP prevention guidelines among nurses jumped from 40% to 90%, indicating improved practices.
Patient assessment improvements included weaning protocol adherence rising from 10.70% to 100% post-intervention.
Data were gathered through knowledge assessments and observations, alongside VAP incidence rates per 1,000 ventilator-days.
While nursing practices improved, VAP incidence rates remained unaffected due to patient-specific factors and higher illness severity.

Boonkerdram et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Quasi-experimental study shows increased adherence to VAP prevention guidelines in ICU, highlighting the need for addressing individual patient risk.