Objectives: To evaluate the predictive power of risk factors for pressure ulcers in adult intensive care patients. Method: A retrospective case-control study was performed utilising a heterogeneous sample group allo- cated into a case group with pressure ulcers ( n = 90) and a control group without pressure ulcers ( n = 90). The analysis explored the predictive power of risk factors for pressure ulcers using a ...
Objective: analyze the association between the socioeconomic and clinical factors and the indicators of the outcome of nursing Tissue Integrity in patients with venous ulcers. Methods: cross-sectional study in a university hospital of Natal / RN / Brazil, from February to June 2012, with 50 individuals. For the analysis of the variables we used the Spearman correlation test, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis, ado...
Objetivo: analisar a associação entre os fatores socioeconômicos e clínicos e os indicadores do resultado de enfermagem Integridade Tissular em pacientes com úlceras venosas.Métodos: estudo transversal realizado em um hospital universitário de Natal/RN/Brasil entre os meses fevereiro a junho de 2012, com 50 indivíduos. Para a análise das variáveis, utilizou-se o teste de Correlação de Spearman, Mann-Whitney e K...
Objective: To analyze the performance of the nurses of the intensive therapy unit for the treatment of pressure ulcers. Method: Descriptive study developed with 13 nurses from the intensive care unit of a University Hospital in northeastern of Brazil. A questionnaire was applied in June and July 2011 and submitted to thematic content analysis. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Federal Univer...
A úlcera venosa é um problema epidemiológico de alta prevalência, que provoca incapacidade e dependência. Avaliar o comprometimento tissular de pacientes com lesões venosas, dentro de um referencial próprio da Enfermagem, pode direcionar os cuidados conforme as especificidades dos pacientes. Tratou-se de um estudo transversal, com o objetivo de identificar o grau de comprometimento da integridade tissular de pa...
Objective. To explore the relationship between the risk factors for the development of venous ulcers and the indicators of tissue integrity from the Nursing Outcomes Classification. Methodology. A cross-sectional study conducted in 2013 in a university hospital in Natal/RN (Brazil). Fifty individuals selected by consecutive sampling participated in an interview and physical examination. Results. The most import...
Objective: To identify the prevalence of nursing diagnosis of fluid volume excess and their defining characteristics in hemodialysis patients and the association between them. Method: Cross-sectional study conducted in two steps. We interviewed 100 patients between the months of December 2012 and April 2013 in a teaching hospital and one hemodialysis clinic. The inference was performed by diagnostician nurses b...
Cross-sectional study conducted in a university hospital located in the Brazil´s northeastern with 50 patients in the prostatectomy immediate postoperative. The study aimed to identify the defining characteristics and related/ risk factors that are associated with nursing diagnoses present in patients undergoing to prostatectomy. Nine nursing diagnoses that are statistically associated with related/ risk factor...
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 examin...
The venous ulcer is an epidemiological problem of high prevalence, causing disability and dependence. Assess the tissue impairment level of patients with venous lesions, within a nursing referential, is relevant for the implementation of a directed assistance to specific clientele. Thus, this work aims to characterize the health status regarding the integrity the lower limbs skin of patients with venous ulcers,...