ICNP® nursing diagnostics for people in-home care

Abstract

Objectives: to identify ICNP® nursing diagnoses in people attended in a home care program. Methods: cross-sectional study with 131 patients of Home Health Care in a northern municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil, applied a questionnaire based on Basic Human Needs. It was performed the identification and validation by consensus of specialists with support in Risner's diagnostic reasoning, of the nursing diagnoses of ICNP®, version 2019. Results: from 77 nursing diagnoses, most are inserted in the psychobiological needs (n = 66) and refer to the domains Nutrition; Hydration and electrolytic regulation; Cutaneous-mucous integrity; Locomotion, body mechanics and mobility; Body care; and Learning, Sociability, Recreation, and leisure. From total, forty are negative, followed by positive formulations (n = 15), clinical findings (n = 15) and risk (n = 7). Conclusions: a profile of the nursing phenomena common to home care is presented, which can be used by nurses in clinical practice, teaching, research, and management.

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“…Recent studies have been found which studied patients who either required home care, or in nursing homes. These individuals, showed alterations mainly in mobility, lack of self‐care, risk for falls, inefficient family processes, risk due to pressure ulcers, and impaired memory (Shin et al, 2021; Sousa et al, 2021).…”