Abstract
Objective: to achieve a mapping of national and international scientific productions about nursing care to patients that were submitted or will be submitted to hip arthroplasty. Methods: this is an exploratory and transverse study that sought to characterize the cross scientific production on the nursing care in hip arthroplasty and the articles were searched on LILACS, MEDLINE, Pubmed, SciELO and BDENF Virtual Libraries in the period of 1976-2008 and were founded 239 publications, the most ever published in international journals. Results: from these, we selected 23 articles, which had full access whether they were in Portuguese or English and was observed that there is a shortage in national scientific productions about this thematic in nursing area and a necessity of more researches. Conclusion: the analysis showed it’s necessary that more studies must be done to attend the clients’ necessities and the nurses that work on the Orthopaedic nursing area must discuss and go further in the treatment to be institutionalized pre, trans and pos surgical hip arthroplasty for a good attendance to the clients, reduce the troubles and costs. Descriptors: orthopedic nursing; nursing care; patient care; hip arthroplasty.
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