Methods of securing support for the proposal and obtaining necessary approvals
The first and foremost approval to obtaining support is from fellow nurses in order to “buy them in” as they will be an important asset in the formal approval of the executives. Talking to colleagues who work at the bedside of the patients and understand what the change is all about is an important part in the implementation. Administration approval will also be an important tool as the support will be valuable in the degree of change impacted in the institution. Holding meetings with the key stakeholders is practically necessary in order to share the needs of the patient population, vested interest in the question, and showing the …show more content…
This was found to be caused mainly due to lack of an institutional oral care guidelines followed at this hospital. Hiroko and Blegen, 2015 carried out a research on how institutional guidelines for oral care and improvement of nursing perception on following the proper protocol helps in diminishing VAP infections. This research was a cross-sectional carried out within 8 hospitals with ICU in 2009. This was a quantitative study giving evidence that proper oral hygiene care with set guidelines wholly or partially influenced controlling …show more content…
This review study explored the development of the nursing exposition of oral care for intubated patients. This study formed an evidence based practice that oral care main motive should be to prevent VAP and not like initially done for patient comfort.
Zaghlol, Azarpazhooh, El-Rabbany, & Bhandari (2015), carried out a study for preventive oral health care to avert VAP in an organized appraisal. This study was mainly done in order to check out different mouth care methods performed to decrease infections in intensive care units (ICU). The result of this study formed an EBP that good oral care with chlorhexidine averted VAP. This study laid a good foundation for this type of oral care to be adapted in the hospitals.
Researchers Sedwick, Nardi, Reeder, & Lance-Smith (2012) used critical care nurse to evaluate the effectiveness of using EBP to stop VAP. Researchers’ main goal was to develop a care package to decrease occurrences of VAP. These research formed an EBP proving that VAP bundle should include procedures for oral care. When this was practically used it enabled compliance to increase to 98% in all the different areas of the