Research on continuing nursing model for ventilator-dependent children in China / 中华护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To establish the continuing nursing model for ventilator-dependent children in China and explore its feasibility.Methods Ventilator-dependent children in our hospital from October 2015 to February 2017 were recruited.Self-designed home ventilation follow-up card and long-term ventilator-dependent children outpatient follow-up card were used to collect information.We established files for patients trained and evaluated caregivers conducted discharge assessment for patients and family status performed follow-up and management.Results Totally 30 cases of parents and caregivers received home care training and passed the examination 15 cases of ventilator-dependent children returned home with home ventilator and 12 received follow-up.The total readmission rate was 58.3％;among them the readmission rate in one month was 33.3％.One case died due to deteriorated primary disease and 11 cases used home mechanical ventilation successfully during follow-up.The length of home mechanical ventilation varied from 5 months to 2 years.Conclusion The continuing nursing model for ventilator-dependent children is feasible.