Nursing diagnoses in patients interned for the orthopedics clinic in a medical-surgical unit

Abstract

Descriptive and exploratory study, carried through in a school hospital in Londrina that was focused on how to identify the frequency of the main nursing diagnoses according to the North American Nursing Diagnoses Association in male patients interned in orthopedics clinic. The sample was composed from 60 patients, who had been submitted to an interview and physical examination. The average age was 40,6 years old and the average nursing diagnoses was 10,6 per patient. The activity domain and rest was the most frequent (36%) followed by security and protection (28%). The most frequent nursing diagnoses were: risk for infection (76.6%), the harmed skin integrity (73,3%), acute pain (65%), auto care for bath and hygiene deficit (58,3%), physical mobility deficience (51.6%), deficient knowledge (50%), neurovascular peripheral dysfunction risk (48,3%). This research favored the identification of the necessities of cares of sick people interned with orthopedics problems, contributing to the delineation of the relevance of the different pertinent clinical focus concerning the orthopedics nursing.