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Performance Elements
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Yes
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No
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| COMPETENCY
STATEMENT: Provides nursing care for the patient
requiring mechanical ventilation. |
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| 1. Identifies
the indications for mechanical ventilation. |
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2. Lists the
steps in preparing for intubation:
a.
Notifies physician and respiratory
therapist.
b.
Assembles the necessary equipment.
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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.
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| 4. Describes the
various modes of ventilation and their
implication. |
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| 5. Describes at
least two complications associated with patient’s
response to mechanical ventilation and their
signs and symptoms. |
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| 6. Describe the
causes of given ventilator alarms and nursing
measures taken to trouble shoot given alarm. |
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| 7. Describe some
preventative measures taken aimed at prevention
of ventilator- associated complications. |
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| 8. Given a
nursing intervention in the care plan of the
ventilated patient, be able to explain the
rationale. |
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| 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. |
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| 10. Verbalizes
ventilator standards IAW Infection Control Manual
Guidelines and Respiratory Therapy in Intensive
Care Units SOP. |
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| 11. Emergency
equipment available in patient room: ambu bag,
mask, appropriate size suction catheter and no
outdated equipment. |
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