Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-1 | Issue-03 | 138-145
Original Research Article
Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices Regarding Prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in a Tertiary Care Hospital Lahore
Sahar Shabir, Afsar Ali, Miss Farzana Begum
Published : July 30, 2018
Abstract
Ventilator associated pneumonia is the most common nosocomial infection
arising as complication at Intensive care units. It affects nearly 8-20% of the clients
admitted at intensive care units and is 27% among the mechanically ventilated patients (Al
Shameri). The main purpose of this study was, to assess the knowledge and practice of
Ventilator associated Pneumonia prevention among nurses at PIC Hospital Lahore. A
cross sectional descriptive survey was performed to assess the knowledge and practices
among Nurses. A convenient sample of n=122was used to collect the data. A structured
adopted questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire consisted demographic
variables, Knowledge of VAP and Practices of VAP among the nurses of the ICU at PIC
Lahore. The data was analyzed on SPSS version 21. Overall knowledge was satisfactory
where 50% of the study participants had good knowledge and gave more than 80% correct
responses about different aspects of the Ventilator Associated pneumonia prevention.
30.33% were satisfactory knowledge about the VAP prevention. Overall Practice result
very good practices among 83% of the participants who were practicing 20 or more items
out of 24 statements. 12.33% had satisfactory practices. Overall knowledge was
satisfactory and practices were good among the nurses at PIC regarding ventilator
associated Pneumonia.