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.
For other uses, see Walk the Plank (disambiguation). Pirates' captive walking the plank (illustration by Howard Pyle) Walking the plank was a method of execution thought to have been practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers.