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The Human Responses and Nursing Diagnoses of Those Living With Infertility: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Romeiro Joana,
Caldeira Sílvia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of nursing knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2047-3095
pISSN - 2047-3087
DOI - 10.1111/2047-3095.12223
Subject(s) - nursing diagnosis , medical diagnosis , nursing , infertility , nursing process , distress , medicine , nursing care , nursing outcomes classification , nursing practice , medline , holistic nursing , nursing assessment , qualitative research , nursing research , psychology , clinical psychology , team nursing , pregnancy , pathology , sociology , social science , biology , political science , law , genetics
OBJECTIVE To systematically retrieve, critique, and synthesize patients’ human responses about living with infertility and identify possible related nursing diagnoses according to NANDA‐I. METHODS Systematic review of qualitative nursing studies. FINDINGS A total of 39 papers were included, 49 human responses, and 77 potential infertility‐related nursing diagnoses were identified across three themes. Main foci matching nursing diagnosis were related to spiritual well‐being, spiritual distress, and resilience. CONCLUSIONS Patients respond to infertility in a variety of ways and this raises the need for a more effective, holistic, and accurate nursing diagnosis. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The accuracy of the nursing diagnosis is critical in raising the quality of the nursing process and in meeting infertile patients’ circumstances and care expectations.