User:Vareseh/sandbox

My name is Varese Hodge. I graduated from my ADN program in December 2003. My current practice setting is bedside nursing in the ICU. A procedure that I have performed during my practice that I believe demonstrates an example of procedure that is based upon research evidence is oral care while patients are intubated on the ventilator. Research has shown that performing oral care a minimum of every four hours on these patients has shown to decrease the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia.

There is lots of information that supports a variety of things to reduce ventilator acquired pneumonia.