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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Nursing Practice
  • Quality Improvement

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  • Prolonged mechanical ventilation exposes patients to sedatives and analgesics, leading to adverse outcomes.
  • Reducing sedative and analgesic exposure is crucial for improving patient recovery in intensive care settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To implement a nurse-driven sedation protocol to minimize sedative and analgesic medication exposure in mechanically ventilated patients.
  • To evaluate the impact of a nurse-driven sedation protocol on patient outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • A quality improvement project utilized a plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle.
  • Nurses received protocol education; 30 patient records were reviewed pre- and post-implementation.
  • Data collected included ICU length of stay, mechanical ventilation duration, sedation duration, delirium, pain, sedation level, and spontaneous awakening trials (SATs).

Main Results:

  • Mechanical ventilation duration decreased by 26% (5 to 3.7 days).
  • ICU length of stay reduced by 27% (6.3 to 4.6 days).
  • Continuous sedation duration decreased by 35%, while documented and performed spontaneous awakening trials increased significantly (77% and 77%, respectively).

Conclusions:

  • Nurse-driven sedation protocols can decrease mechanical ventilation duration, ICU length of stay, and continuous sedation.
  • Implementation of this protocol led to improved outcomes, including increased spontaneous awakening trials.
  • These findings support the use of nurse-driven protocols for optimizing sedation management in critical care.