Resumen de Nursing diagnosis and Roy´s theoretical model in prostatectomized patients

Elisandra de Araújo Saldanha, Cecília María Farias de Queiroz Frazão, Maria Isabel da Conceição Dias Fernandes, Ana Beatriz Almeida Medeiros, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Ana Luisa Brandão de Carvalho Lira

• 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.

  DOI:https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20130004000014