A patient has a nursing diagnosis of risk for injury related to asynchrony with the ventilator secondary to anxiety.Initially,what should the nurse do?

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The initial intervention should be to verbally coach the patient to breathe with the ventilator in order to promote synchronization between the patient's breathing efforts and the ventilator. If this is not effective, other interventions such as sedation or manual ventilation with 100% oxygen can be considered. Increasing the ventilator rate to override the patient's efforts at breathing is not recommended as it can lead to further asynchrony and potentially harm the patient.

A Patient Has a Nursing Diagnosis of Risk for Injury