Prevalence of nursing diagnoses in an intensive care unit
Objective: to identify the main nursing diagnostic titles used in the care of critically ill patients hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit, verifying the presence thereof in the diagnoses of NANDA International’s Taxonomy II. Methods: descriptive and documental study, in which 69 medical records o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Repositorio: | Rev Rene (Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufc:article/19216 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/19216 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nursing Diagnosis Nursing Process Intensive Care Units Critical Care. |
| Sumario: | Objective: to identify the main nursing diagnostic titles used in the care of critically ill patients hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit, verifying the presence thereof in the diagnoses of NANDA International’s Taxonomy II. Methods: descriptive and documental study, in which 69 medical records of patients aged over 18 years were consulted. Results:22 nursing diagnostic titles were found; the most frequent was risk for infection (99.0%), risk for skin integrity (75.0%) and risk for aspiration (61.0%). Most diagnoses were in the domains safety/protection (43.0%) and activity/rest (26.5%). Conclusions: authors identified the main nursing diagnostic titles used in the care of critically ill patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and the presence thereof in the diagnoses of NANDA International’s Taxonomy II. |
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