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| Release Date: 6/6/2006 |
| Headline: Alamance Regional achieves a zero-percent VAP |
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The following article appeared in Advance for Nurses magazine, April 24 • Vol. 8 • No. 10.
Back to Basics
By Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN
For 24 consecutive months, nurses at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC, have fought — and won — the battle against ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in the critical care unit. Justifiably proud of the zero-percent VAP rate, Deana Drake, BSN, RN, CIC, manager of the infection control program, described the challenge that led to changes in the basic care of ventilator-dependent patients.
"One of our administrators went to an Institute for Healthcare Improvement meeting, where he heard about a facility with a zero percent VAP rate," Drake said. "He came back and challenged me, 'Why can't we be at zero?' As a nonclinical person, he was truly interested in finding out the answer."
For a downloadable copy of the entire article, click here.
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