Evidência da escovagem dos dentes na prevenção da pneumonia associada ao ventilador

Abstract

The elaboration of this report is part of the Master's program in Nursing with Specialization in Medical and Surgical Nursing, from the Nursing School of the Portuguese Catholic University, in Lisbon, and aims to show my progress during my internship, which consists of three parts, Emergency Service, Intensive Care and Option, each one with a total of 180 hours. The first part of the internship was at the General Emergency Service, highlighting the training carried out on the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia, addressing the issue of oral hygiene and the option of intubation with oral gastric probe of the person submitted to invasive mechanical ventilation. The second part was carried out in the Intensive and Intermediate Care Unit, which emphasizes the specialized care to the person in critical situation and his family, more specifically to the person submitted to invasive mechanical ventilation maintaining the problem of ventilator-associated pneumonia. During this internship I conducted audits to the performing of the nurse team on the intervention bundles ventilator-associated pneumonia, present in the 21/2015 Norm of the General Directorate of Health. The results were presented at the end of this second internship. The last internship was carried out in the Local Coordination Group Prevention and Control Program for Antimicrobial Infections and Resistance, where we decided to carry out a systematic review of the literature on "Chlorhexidine-associated toothbrushing: Evidence for the prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia ". This internship part of the curricular unit, allowed me to develop competences in the field of prevention and control of infections associated with health care. The aim for this internship was accomplish by the increased of autonomy in the care delivery of prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in different contexts.

Date of Award	27 Nov 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Manuela Madureira Lebre Mendes (Supervisor)