title: Nursing diagnoses and interventions for a child after cardiac surgery in an intensive care unit.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the nursing clinical judgment as a basis for ND identification and development of a NIC treatment plan for a child after cardiac surgery under intensive care.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case study with data retrospectively collected from charts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three nurses identified NANDA-I diagnoses and NIC interventions. A 6-month-old child submitted to cardiac surgery, requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the postoperative period. Four main nursing diagnoses were identified, towards which ten interventions were directed. The proposal of interventions to respond to the priority human responses of the child was optimized by the use of standard terminologies. Every nursing diagnosis was supported by diagnostic indicators; every intervention was scientifically supported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There must be an expectation that nurses address not only physiological responses, but also those within psychosocial domains.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Agueda Maria Ruiz Zimmer
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Cavalcante
authors.affiliation: Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Evelise Helena Fadini Reis
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Brunori
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Camila Takáo
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.affiliation: Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andréa Braz Vendramini
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, United State of America.
authors.forename: T Heather
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Herdman
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing*