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Suction is a procedure of action in health services that affect the safety of the clients because suction aims to assist clients to fulfill the oxygen needs by helping to liberate the airway. This study aims to gain an overview of the nurses experience of determining how to perform suction actions on clients with mechanical ventilators in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The method used in this research is qualitative method with phenomenology design. The data were collected by in-depth interviews on six participants who worked as nurses in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) room. There are seven themes identified in this study: (1) the understanding of suction (2) the experience of suction (3) the suction complication (4) the pathophysiology of ventilator installation (5) the importance of adequate resource support (6) the nurse constraint in the suction implementation (7) the protection against nosocomial infections potential. From the results of this study, it is expected that the hospital can improve the support of nurses on their self-development and facilities in carrying out actions in accordance with the standards, in order to continue to gain skills and can update the latest health sciences to support the procedures performed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).