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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSES

•Follow ICU protocol in giving Enteral Feeding, this is to avoid

patient from vomiting or regurgitation.
• Isolate and perform barrier nursing for all Nosocomial
Infected patients.
• All health personnel must wear plastic aprons and practice

hand hygiene when attending before and after contact with
patient. Use new aprons for all patients and procedures.

• Minimize to 2 visitors per visit and ensure they practice hand
hygiene before and after visiting patient
• Ensure all ventilated patient are given Thrombosis

Prophylaxis for example Heparine or low molecular weight
heparine and sedation vacation.
• Perform Ventilator Care Bundle audit 3 times per month on

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1 , 11 , and 21 at 4.00 pm. If not compliance towards
ventilator care bundle, inform to the higher authority for the
improvement.
• Accurate and prompt documentation
• Analyse data monthly and submit to Quality Unit, Jabatan
Kesihatan Negeri and Ministry Of Health.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Record the number of patients in ICU that are on invasive
mechanical ventilation should be done at the same time
everyday

2. Encouraged to conduct daily surveillance the number of
patients on invasive mechanical ventilation for the day and
leave the cell empty if surveillance is not done

4. Record the number of episodes of VAP for the month.
5. Use the formula as shown in the table to obtain the
incidence of VAP for the month.

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