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A patient is being admitted to the intensive care unit after being resuscitated in the emergency department. The patient is being mechanically ventilated. Which information provided by the transferring nurse would the nurse evaluate as increasing this patient’s risk of developing ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)?

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1. “The patient is intubated nasally.”
2. “The patient arrested after having a myocardial infarction.”
3. “The patient required placement of a nasogastric tube to relieve persistent gastric distention.”
4. “The patient’s home medications include a proton pump inhibitor.”
5. “The patient has a history of COPD.”
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Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills

Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills


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I assumed that was the answer, I appreciate the confirmation
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