Author(s): Saldanha, Elisandra de Araújo ; Frazão, Cecília Maria Farias de Queiroz ; Fernandes, Maria Isabel da Conceição Dias ; Medeiros, Ana Beatriz de Almeida ; Lopes, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira ; Lira, Ana Luisa Brandão de Carvalho
Date: 2013
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Nursing Theory; Nursing Diagnosis; Prostatic Hyperplasia; Prostatectomy.
A descriptive study aimed at identifying the profile of NANDA International nursing diagnoses in patients in the immediate post-operative prostatectomy and relates them to adaptive problems of the Roy Adaptation Model. Conducted in a university hospital in the Northeast of Brazil, between November, 2010 and April, 2011, with a sample of 50 subjects. The collected data were through interviews and physical examinations, with subsequent analysis by means of clinical reasoning. These relations were found: risk of falls and potential injury; impaired ambulation and mobility to walk and/or restricted coordination; self-care deficits and loss of ability to self-care; acute pain and acute pain; insomnia/impaired sleep patterns and sleep deprivation; constipation and constipation. Therefore, most of the nursing diagnoses identified are similar to adaptive problems according to Roy.
