Background: - The critical care nurse plays a key part in putting safety precautions in place for
critically ill patient on: mechanical ventilator. Aim: Evaluate the effect of implementing educational
program about safety measures for mechanically ventilated patients on nurses' performance.
Design: Quasi-experimental research design. Setting: Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit and
Traumatology Medicine Intensive Care Unit in Tanta Emergency Hospital affiliated to Tanta
University hospital. Subjects: All nurses (80) working in the previously mentioned settings who
are caring for mechanical ventilated patients. 50 nurses at Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit and 30
nurses at traumatology medicine intensive care unit. Tools: Two tools were used in this study, Tool
I: Nurses' knowledge of Safety Measures Questionnaire; it includes the following parts :- Part (1):
Socio-demographic data of nurses . Part (2):- Nurses' knowledge about safety measures for
mechanically ventilated patient. Tool II: Nurse's Observational Checklist. Results: A highly
significant differences were found among all studied nurses regarding their total level of knowledge
and practice pre, immediately and post 3 months of educational program, where P<0.05.
Conclusion: implementing educational program about safety measures for mechanically ventilated
patients is extremely effective in promoting the achievement of nurses' knowledge level and
enhancement of nurses' practice level. Recommendation: Implementing educational program about
safety measures for mechanically ventilated patients that should be obligatory for newly oppointed
nurses critical care nurses in ICU.