Open AccessNursing diagnoses for patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery
Author(s) -
Carla Portolan Ribeiro,
Caroline de Oliveira Silveira,
Eliane Raquel Rieth Benetti,
Joseila Sônego Gomes,
Eniva Miladi Fernandes Stumm
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.2015000200004
Subject(s) - medical diagnosis , medicine , cardiac surgery , nursing interventions classification , psychological intervention , nursing , nursing diagnosis , nursing care , intensive care unit , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , surgery , radiology
Objective: to identify nursing diagnoses of patients in mediate postoperative period of cardiac surgery. Methods: descriptive,cross-sectional design with 26 patients in mediate postoperative period of cardiac surgery, in an intensive care unit. Datawere collected through a form of socio-demographic/clinic characterization and nursing diagnoses. Results: one identified15 risk nursing diagnoses and 34 real diagnoses, and the most common were related to the domain safety and protection.Conclusion: the identification of nursing diagnoses in patients after cardiac surgery allows one to direct nursing care andsupport appropriate interventions to individual needs, because patients in these conditions require immediate and accurateinterventions.