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Nursing Care of A Patient On A Ventilator Performance Skills Checklist

This document is a performance skills checklist for nursing care of a patient on a ventilator. It lists 11 critical performance elements that a nurse must demonstrate competency in, including identifying ventilator settings and modes, describing potential complications and alarms, preventative measures, and standards of care for ventilated patients. The nurse must be able to explain rationales for interventions, document pertinent assessments and results, and follow infection control guidelines for ventilator care.

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Nursing Care of A Patient On A Ventilator Performance Skills Checklist

This document is a performance skills checklist for nursing care of a patient on a ventilator. It lists 11 critical performance elements that a nurse must demonstrate competency in, including identifying ventilator settings and modes, describing potential complications and alarms, preventative measures, and standards of care for ventilated patients. The nurse must be able to explain rationales for interventions, document pertinent assessments and results, and follow infection control guidelines for ventilator care.

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  • Ventilator Performance Skills Checklist: The checklist outlines critical elements ensuring competent nursing care for patients requiring mechanical ventilation, structured as a series of items tackling specific nursing responsibilities and equipment management.

NAME ___________________________ POSITION __________

UNIT ___________
Nursing
EVALUATOR _____________________POSITION
__________ DATE __________ Care of a
Ventilator
NURSING CARE OF A PATIENT ON A VENTILATOR
PERFORMANCE SKILLS CHECKLIST Patient
Critical Performance Elements Yes No
COMPETENCY STATEMENT: Provides nursing care for the patient requiring
mechanical ventilation.

1. Identifies the indications for mechanical ventilation.

2. Lists the steps in preparing for intubation:

a. Notifies physician and respiratory therapist.

b. Assembles the necessary equipment.


3. Determines the patient’s ventilator settings on a given ventilator and verifies
against the physician’s orders:

a. FIO2, tidal volume, rate, and mode.

b. Identifies additional settings according to patient


orders.
4. Describes the various modes of ventilation and their implication.

5. Describes at least two complications associated with patient’s response to


mechanical ventilation and their signs and symptoms.

6. Describe the causes of given ventilator alarms and nursing measures taken to
trouble shoot given alarm.

7. Describe some preventative measures taken aimed at prevention of


ventilator- associated complications.

8. Given a nursing intervention in the care plan of the ventilated patient, be


able to explain the rationale.

9. Verbalizes the standards of care according to care plan and documents


pertinent information including the following: type of airway, position and size;
type of ventilator and settings; breath sounds and pulmonary assessment;
interprets ABG results; weaning attempts and patient tolerance.

10. Verbalizes ventilator standards IAW Infection Control Manual Guidelines


and Respiratory Therapy in Intensive Care Units SOP.

11. Emergency equipment available in patient room: ambu bag, mask,


appropriate size suction catheter and no outdated equipment.

Nursing Care of a Ventilator Patient NAME ___________________________ POSITION __________ UNIT ___________ EVALUATOR __
Critical Performance Elements Yes No COMPETENCY STATEMENT: Provides nursing care for the patient requiring mechanical ve

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