Effect of Selected Evidence-based Practices and Related Nurses' Education on the Incidence and Severity of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
- Conditions
- Nursing EducationVentilator-associated PneumoniaEvidence-based PracticesIncidence
- Interventions
- Other: Ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention Evidence-based practices (VAPPEBP) which consists of ten items bundle
- Registration Number
- NCT05877105
- Lead Sponsor
- Cairo University
- Brief Summary
Background:
Invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) is used as a cornerstone in the treatment plan of intensive care units (ICUs) patients to provide adequate tissue oxygenation to support the body during the treatment course.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a preventable iatrogenic complication that can develop in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. VAP is pneumonia that develops 2 days after endotracheal intubation; the patient must have new or progressive radiological infiltrate, infection alerts (e.g. fever, white blood cell count change), altered sputum characters, and isolation of a causative organism, all together to diagnose VAP. VAP is the most frequent hospital-acquired infection occurring in the ICUs and has a high associated mortality rate. Mortality rate for VAP ranges from 24-51%.
Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the VAP preventive effect of the selected EPB and related nurses' education on the incidence and severity of VAP, as well as assess the nurses' compliance with the selected VAP preventive EBP
Hypothesis:
H1: Implementation of VAP prevention EBP and related nurses' education would reduce the incidence of VAP among mechanically ventilated patients compared to those receiving conventional care.
H2: Implementation of VAP prevention EBP and related nurses' education would reduce the severity of VAP among mechanically ventilated patients compared to those receiving conventional care.
Research question:
Q1: What level of compliance do ICU staff have with implementing of VAP prevention EBP?
Trial design The current study will utilize a prospective, longitudinal, single-arm design, pre \& post-experimental. The research's purpose, risks, and potential benefits will be explained to all participants before their voluntary consent and recruitment into the study. Participation was completely voluntary, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants or their families.
ICU nurses will receive tutorial sessions, including four hours of theory and six hours of clinical training in the clinical setting. The tutorial sessions will cover the proper implementation of ten VAP preventive bundles as an EVB. The clinical training will use a demonstration and redemonstration approach to learning to ensure that they understand and can implement the ten VAP preventive bundles efficiently.
Participants sample and setting The study will be held at the ICU of the National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (Imbaba Fever Hospital) (NHTMRI-IFH), Giza, Egypt. The total capacity of the ICUs is 20 beds.
Data collection procedure After obtaining ethical and administrative approval, informed consent will be obtained from eligible patients. The pre-experimental phase will be started by assessing VAP incidence and severity among the participating MV patients using tools 1 and 2, as well as ICU staff compliance to implement the VAP preventive bundle utilizing tool 3 as baseline data for 30-40 days. After finishing the pre-assessment, the following week will be considered washing time before starting the post-experimental time to ensure that all pre-assessment patients are discharged. During the washing time, the nurses will receive a tutorial session on how to implement the adopted VAP preventive bundle, and then the medical and nursing staff will start implementing the VAP preventive bundle in the post-experimental phase for 30-40 days. Tools 1, 2, and 3 will be utilized to evaluate VAP incidence, severity, and ICU staff compliance to implement the VAP preventive bundle. All data will be collected in an Excel sheet for potential statistical analysis.
- Detailed Description
Background:
Invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) is used as a cornerstone in the treatment plan of intensive care units (ICUs) patients to provide adequate tissue oxygenation to support the body during the treatment course.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a preventable iatrogenic complication that can develop in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. VAP is pneumonia that develops 2 days after endotracheal intubation; the patient must have new or progressive radiological infiltrate, infection alerts (e.g. fever, white blood cell count change), altered sputum characters, and isolation of a causative organism, all together to diagnose VAP. VAP is the most frequent hospital-acquired infection occurring in the ICUs and has a high associated mortality rate. Mortality rate for VAP ranges from 24-51%.
Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the VAP preventive effect of the selected EPB and related nurses' education on the incidence and severity of VAP, as well as assess the nurses' compliance with the selected VAP preventive EBP
Hypothesis:
H1: Implementation of VAP prevention EBP and related nurses' education would reduce the incidence of VAP among mechanically ventilated patients compared to those receiving conventional care.
H2: Implementation of VAP prevention EBP and related nurses' education would reduce the severity of VAP among mechanically ventilated patients compared to those receiving conventional care.
Research question:
Q1: What level of compliance do ICU staff have with implementing of VAP prevention EBP?
Trial design The current study will utilize a prospective, longitudinal, single-arm design, pre \& post-experimental. The research's purpose, risks, and potential benefits will be explained to all participants before their voluntary consent and recruitment into the study. Participation was completely voluntary, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants or their families.
ICU nurses will receive tutorial sessions, including four hours of theory and six hours of clinical training in the clinical setting. The tutorial sessions will cover the proper implementation of ten VAP preventive bundles as an EVB. The clinical training will use a demonstration and redemonstration approach to learning to ensure that they understand and can implement the ten VAP preventive bundles efficiently.
Participants sample and setting The study will be held at the ICU of the National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (Imbaba Fever Hospital) (NHTMRI-IFH), Giza, Egypt. The total capacity of the ICUs is 20 beds.
Regards to the ICU patients, 72 patients estimated by G power software V.3.1.9.4 (Psychonomic Society, Madison, Wisconsin, USA) with α = 0.05, power (1-β err prob) = 0.80, and effect size = 0.6. Also, eight participants will be added as anticipated dropout during the time of data collection. Hence the total targeted sample size will be 80 patients (40 in each group). Also, all ICU staff (nurses and doctors) working in the selected ICU will be invited to participate in this study to learn and implement the ten VAP preventive bundles.
Data collection procedure After obtaining ethical and administrative approval, informed consent will be obtained from eligible patients. The pre-experimental phase will be started by assessing VAP incidence and severity among the participating MV patients using tools 1 and 2, as well as ICU staff compliance to implement the VAP preventive bundle utilizing tool 3 as baseline data for 30-40 days. After finishing the pre-assessment, the following week will be considered washing time before starting the post-experimental time to ensure that all pre-assessment patients are discharged. During the washing time, the nurses will receive a tutorial session on how to implement the adopted VAP preventive bundle, and then the medical and nursing staff will start implementing the VAP preventive bundle in the post-experimental phase for 30-40 days. Tools 1, 2, and 3 will be utilized to evaluate VAP incidence, severity, and ICU staff compliance to implement the VAP preventive bundle. All data will be collected in an Excel sheet for potential statistical analysis.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 99
- ICU patients intubated mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours
Also, the ICU staff (medical or nurses) working in the selected ICU will be invited to participate in this study to learn and implement the ten VAP preventive bundles.
- Patients intubated outside the IFH.
- patients have immunocompromised diseases will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description experimental Ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention Evidence-based practices (VAPPEBP) which consists of ten items bundle The intervention group of patients will receive the proposed VAP prevention EBP which consists of ten items bundle. also, assessment of MV patients for VAP incidence and severity ICU staff for will be assessed for Compliance with implementing VAP prevention EBP
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluate the effect of the selected EPB and related nurses' education on the incidence VAP 35-40 days VAP incidence will be measured using the diagnostic criteria for clinically defined pneumonia outlined by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (TOOL 1) \[3\]. The ICU specialist will made a final diagnosis of VAP based on chest imaging test results, clinical signs/symptoms, and laboratory findings. VAP incidence will be measured every day for MV patients using tool 1.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluate the effect of the selected EPB and related nurses' education on the severity of VAP 35-40 days The severity of VAP will be determined by sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scores \[9\]. During a patient's stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), the SOFA scoring system employs six reproducible variables per organ system to assess the disease's severity. Vincent et al. developed it in 1996 \[9\]. Each organ system was assigned a score between 0 (normal) and 4 (most abnormal), with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 24. We will evaluate the SOFA scores for the patients on ICU admission, the first day of MV connection, every day of VAP development, and on ICU discharge (if applicable).
Assess the compliance of ICU staff with implementing VAP prevention bundel as an EBP 35-40 days VAPPCC is an advanced tool formulated by researchers in terms of the proposed VAP prevention EBP (ten bundle). VAPPCC consists of ten items, including the satisfactory criteria for each item. The ICU staff's compliance for each item ranged from 1 (yes) to 0 (no), with a minimum score of 0 and a maximum of 10. The charge nurse will use VAPPCC to assess the provided care for MV patients daily.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Cairo University
🇪🇬Cairo, Egypt