Abstract
Objective: This study aims to plan and carry out the determination of daily living activities, nursing care needs and to what extent these needs are met in patients who have been undergoing mechanical ventilation and then weaned from mechanical ventilation. Material and methods: This research is a descriptive study planned to determine the daily living activities, nursing care needs and to what extent these needs are met in patients who have been weaned from mechanical ventilation. In this study,
Highlights
Mechanical ventilation [MV] is a frequently used method to relieve respiratory muscles in patients with acute respiratory failure and to reduce the workload, especially in intensive care units [1, 2].The general purposes of Mechanical Ventilation are to provide oxygen transfer to body organs and tissues until respiratory function improves, to improve hypoxia and acute respiratory acidosis, to prevent or eliminate atelectasis, to eliminate the fatigue and weakness of respiratory muscles, to reduce systemic or myocardial oxygen consumption, to decrease intracranial pressure and to stabilize the chest wall [3,4,5].The patients undergoing MV who are treated in intensive care units more frequently face complications because of their critical condition
While 50.7% of the patients stated that they had baths by standing, sitting, or wiping, 12.7% stated that they needed help to wash more than one area of their body, and 14.1% stated that they could not take a bath at all
It was determined that 97.2% of the patients answered yes to the question "Can you get information about nursing care practices related to your disease from nurses?” while 95.4% of them answered yes to the question "Do you rely on the nursing care provided?"
Summary
Mechanical ventilation [MV] is a frequently used method to relieve respiratory muscles in patients with acute respiratory failure and to reduce the workload, especially in intensive care units [1, 2]. As a result of the care performed by nurses by taking into account evidence-based practices, potential complications will be avoided, it will be easy for patients to wean from the ventilator, and the duration of mechanical ventilation will be reduced [7, 8]. This study plan and carry out the determination of daily living activities, nursing care needs and to what extent these needs are met in patients who have been undergoing mechanical ventilation and weaned from mechanical ventilation. What is the level of meeting the daily living activities of the patients who have been undergoing mechanical ventilation and weaned from mechanical ventilation?. What are the opinions of the patients who have been undergoing mechanical ventilation and weaned from mechanical ventilation about the nursing care needs?
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