Resumo
Experimental study of quantitative approach. This is a research project of Professional Master in Nursing Program, School of Nursing, Federal Fluminense University; aims to carry out the assessment of a care protocol for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia and gradation of risk for clients ventilated. The scenario of the research will be a large hospital, the private network in Niterói County, RJ - Brazil, includes the use of the use of study in the experimental group and a control group (which will be assessed retrospectively through analysis of medical records). The actors will be the study of patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the scenario, regardless of sex, age or risk group.
