Developing a Network protocol: nurse-led weaning from ventilation
Developing a Network protocol: nurse-led weaning from ventilation is a scholarly work, published in 2004 in ''Connect The World of Critical Care Nursing''. The main subjects of the publication include medicine, evidence-based practice, family centered care, health care, mechanical ventilation, protocol, medical emergency, critical care nursing, delirium, audit, nursing, emergency medicine, weaning, and intensive care medicine. In modern health care there is an expectation that all practice is evidence-based.vOne area that has received a lot of attention with regard to its evidence base is weaning from mechanical ventilation.vThere is a growing body of evidence that suggests that protocol-driven weaning from ventilation improves patient outcomes.vIn many intensive care units, nurses have taken a lead role in weaning patients from ventilation.vThis paper describes a nurse-led weaning protocol that was developed by a critical care network.vThe protocol is explained, and the charts that were developed to support it are presented.vThe protocol is currently being implemented in four different intensive care units, which are being audited during the first six months of its use.vThe audit processes of data collection and analysis are also described.