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Biography: Kátia C G Bertoncello

Abstract

The heart failure is considered to be one of the greatest public health problems in the world and the most of hospitalizations and hospital readmissions in people over 65 years of age, generating a high cost for the health system. Objective: To identify nursing diagnoses with a focus on the problem of patients with heart failure hospitalized in an emergency hospital of a general hospital according to the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International NANDA-I Taxonomy. Method: Quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, In the emergency department of a southern hospital. 41 patients, older than 18 years, both sexes, who were not pregnant, were admitted to the emergency unit. Results: total of 28 diagnoses were identified, with the highest frequency being 14: sedentary lifestyle, disposition for improved health self-control, impaired physical mobility, fragile elderly syndrome, self-care intolerance for dressing, Activity intolerance, self-care deficit for Bathing, impaired comfort, decreased cardiac output, self-care deficits for intimate hygiene, poor recreation activity, fatigue, ineffective respiratory pattern, and anxiety. Final considerations: To instrumentalize nurses who attend patients with this profile, this study can contribute to the improvement of the practice and application of the nursing process and reflection on care.

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