Abstract
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.
Highlights
Cardiovascular diseases have been present in recent decades in a significant proportion among the causes of morbidity and mortality, both in developed and in developing countries
In Brazil recent trends indicate that the mortality of some cardiovascular diseases is decreasing, suggesting that the confrontation is going in the right direction and, the number of patients with cardiovascular diseases who require care tends to increase[2]
Data collection was conducted from April 4 to May 28 2013, by the researchers, after training and pilot testing through a research protocol, consisting of a patient’s socio-demographic and clinical characterization form and of a nursing diagnosis form, which were developed and validated by the researchers based on the domains of diagnoses of Taxonomy II[9] from NANDA and it allowed the identification and collection of diagnostic titles, defining characteristics and related factors of nursing diagnoses
Summary
Cardiovascular diseases have been present in recent decades in a significant proportion among the causes of morbidity and mortality, both in developed and in developing countries. For having a chronicity character, the treatment of these diseases can be clinical or surgical and it aims to restore the heart’s functional capacity in order to lessen the symptoms and allow individuals to return to their normal activities[3]. In this context, the clinical treatment of heart diseases has progressed and minimally invasive procedures are rapidly expanding, the heart surgery is the intervention chosen in many cases
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