Education plays a key role in the management of patients with VAP. Use of self-study education modules on the nursing care of patients at risk for VAP can decrease the rate of this type of pneumonia, the number of days of mechanical ventilation, and the cost of the disease.8.
For the walkathon as a competitive event, see dance marathon. A walkathon (walk-a-thon), walking marathon or sponsored walk is a type of community or school fundraiser in which participants raise money by collecting donations or pledges for walking a predetermined distance or course.
walk the plank. 1  to be forced by pirates to walk to one's death off the end of a plank jutting out over the water from the side of a ship. 2  to walk blindfolded and manacled off a plank projecting from the side of a ship, as the victims of pirates were sometimes forced to do.