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Pneumonia Research Proposal

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An-Najah National University

Faculty of Medicine and Health sciences

Department of Nursing and Midwifery

Research proposal

Knowledge , Attitudes , and Practice of Nurses in Intensive Care Units about Ventilator Associated Pneumonia ( VAP ) Prevention Bundle in Middle and Northern West bank .

By

Ahmad Jawabra , Sami Soboh , Mohammad Azazmah , Asaad Yousef

Supervised by : Mr. Fady zaben RN , MSN

Submitted as the requirement for the final project thesis of the bachelor 's

degree in nursing Faculty of medicine and health sciences at An-Najah

National University, Nablus, Palestine 2017
Contents

Chapter One 1
Overview of the Study 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Background of The Study 1
1.3 Problem Statement 3
1.4 Research Questions 3 …show more content…

Pneumonitis is a more general term that describes an inflammatory process in the lung tissue that may predispose or place the patient at risk for microbial invasion. Pneumonias are classified as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia (HAP), pneumonia in the immunocompromised host, and aspiration pneumonia. There is overlap in how specific pneumonias are classified, because they may occur in differing settings (Smeltzer , Bare, Hinkle , & Cheever , 2010). VAP: stands for Ventilator associated pneumonia is a type of HAP , which defined as a respiratory infection occurs in patients who are intubated and ventilator dependent that begins after 48 hours of intubation. Characterized by lung infiltration, fever, cough , white blood cells disturbances , excess secretions from respiratory tract and O2 levels drop …show more content…

Prevention and Early diagnosis of VAP is cost effective than treatment , there are strategies " for VAP prevention " VAP Bundle ". We can make this effective through increase awareness , knowledge and practice of health care workers toward methods that are used to prevent VAP , make good prognosis and positive outcomes . Intensive care nurses are the main elements for this , because Ventilator mainly located in closed wards - such as ICU and CCU - and those nurses are 1st line of health care team dealing with them

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