Nursing interventions in the clinical practice of an intensive care unit.
This cross-sectional study was carried out at a university hospital to describe the nursing interventions most frequently performed in the clinical practice of an intensive care unit, based on nursing care prescriptions, and to investigate their similarity to the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). The sample consisted of 991 hospitalizations of patients. Data were retrospectively collected from the computer database and analyzed through descriptive statistics and cross-mapping. A total of 57 different NIC interventions frequently used in the unit were identified; most of them in the complex (42%) and basic physiological (37%) domains, in the classes 'respiratory management' and 'self-care facilitation'. Similarity between the nursing care prescribed and nursing interventions/NIC was found in 97.2% of the cases. The conclusion is that the interventions/NIC used in the clinical practice of this intensive care unit reflects the level of complexity of nursing care, which is mainly directed at the regulation of the body's physical and homeostatic functioning.
Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. alucena@hcpa.ufrgs.br
Amália
A
de Fátima Lucena
Maria Gaby Rivero
MG
de Gutiérrez
Isabel Cristina
IC
Echer
Alba Lucia Bottura Leite
AL
de Barros
D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006706:Homeostasis; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000628:therapy; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000145:classification*; D018529:Nutritional Support; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012648:Self Care; D017592:Skin Care