Evaluation of expected outcomes of nursing interventions to address the nursing diagnosis of fatigue among patients with congestive heart failure

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate expected outcomes of nursing interventions to address the nursing diagnosis of fatigue. METHODS: A cross-sectional quasi-experimental design was used. The sample consisted of 30 coronary care unit in-patient with congestive heart failure and fatigue. A specific tool designed for this study was used to collect specific data on outcomes of nursing interventions to manage the nursing diagnosis of fatigue. RESULTS: Nursing interventions to manage patients' fatigue had positive outcomes. CONCLUSION: The use of the nursing process to identify the nursing diagnosis of fatigue, design and implement specific nursing interventions, and evaluate patient outcomes leads to quality nursing care.

Effectiveness of nursing interventions in heart failure patients in home care using NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC

“…The eighth intervention, energy management, despite the low prevalence of the diagnosis of fatigue in this sample, proved to be effective. Other proposed interventions, such as energy control and exercise promotion, were considered relevant in the study by Assis, Barros, and Ganzarolli (2007). The same authors also assessed activity tolerance in patients hospitalized for heart failure and observed improvement in Likert scale results when comparing the first and seventh day of hospitalization.…”

Diagnósticos de enfermagem em vítimas de trauma nas primeiras seis horas após o evento

“…There are many reasons for using nursing diagnoses: knowing the patient's true needs, objectively outlining care plans, enhancing assessments and the way actions are documented in qualitative terms, setting priorities in view of detected problems, individualizing care, enhancing client/patient satisfaction, detecting the outcomes of planned actions, detecting knowledge gaps in patients and families, offering specific education on a theme and documenting the nursing process (8,9) . In that sense, another important research result is the difference in the number of nursing diagnoses between fatal victims (mean 14) and patients discharged from hospital (mean 8).…”

“…Nursing diagnoses sustain the selection of nursing interventions, with a view to achieving outcomes nursing is responsible for (8)(9)(10) . Considering the complexity of trauma, the Brazilian epidemiological situation, incipient literature on the theme and the particularities of care delivery to victims in the proposed period, this research was developed with the following aims: to discover the frequency of nursing diagnoses in trauma victims within the first six hours after the trauma event and to verify the statistical relation between these diagnoses and mortality.…”

Special Report: Nursing Diagnoses and Interventions for a Child with Dilated Cardiomyopathy Requiring Intra‐aortic Balloon Pump Support—Case Report

“…Several studies have confirmed the benefits of the use of classification systems, among them the standardization language and systematization of care provided (Assis, Barros, & Zanatta, 2007; Lopes, Barros, & Michel, 2009; Vargas & França, 2007).…”