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Oral Care Intervention to Reduce Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit
The purpose of this PI project was to (a) define oral care policies at ... The CNS counted ventilator days by maintaining a running total on the Excel audit sheet. In addition, respiratory therapy ...
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Oral Care Intervention to Reduce Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit
Inadequate documentation by the nurses was attributed to reasons such as "lack of time," "too busy," or "I forgot." To obtain 2,000 ventilator days of full documentation, a total of 345 patients ...