Introduction: heart failure is a serious public health problem with high morbidity and mortality, with an estimated 23 million worldwide. Objective: to estimate the prevalence of priority nursing diagnoses in individuals with risk factors for heart failure in primary care. Methodology: this is a secondary analysis of a sample of 603 individuals in the Digitalis Study, for whom the priority nursing diagnoses wer...
Objetivo: Investigar o ponto de corte da idade para detecção de diabetes mellitus gestacional (DMG). Método: Estudo caso-controle com 416 gestantes acompanhadas no ambulatório de pré-natal de uma maternidade no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. A análise da curva receiver operating characteristic foi aplicada aos dados para evidenciar valores com otimização da sensibilidade em função da especificidade. Resultados: Es...
This article aimed at reporting the experience of the Project on Nursing advice for a Heart Failure Patient, developed with the support of the master course in “ Cardiovascular Sciences” and the “Fundaments Nursing Nucleus” of the Federal Fluminense University (RJ). The objective is describing its insertion as an efficient and appropriate mean of teaching, research and assistance. The project consist of the fol...
Objectives: to analyze treatment adherence in heart failure (HF) patients followed up by the nursing staff at specialized clinics and its association with patients' characteristics such as number of previous appointments, family structure, and comorbidities.Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted at two reference clinics for the treatment of HF patients (center 1 and center 2). Data were obtained using a...
This study aimed to analyze nursing diagnoses in people with chronic venous ulcer. An observational, descriptive, quantitative research conducted in an ambulatory specialized in wound treatment, with a non-probabilistic sample of 20 patients. Data collection was performed in an institutional form denominated Assessment Protocol for Clients with Tissue Lesions. Diagnoses were established by consensus among four...
The objective of this study was to compare the nursing diagnoses identified in adults and elderly in the postoperative period. A total of 20 adults and 20 elderly patients hospitalized in the surgical clinic of a general hospital in Niterói-RJ-Brazil were randomly recruited, from January to April 2009.The Protocol of Carpenito was selected as a data collection instrument. A statistical descriptive and inferenti...