title: Nursing diagnoses of newborns with sepsis in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to elaborate the Nursing Diagnoses of newborns with sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit and characterize the profile of the neonates and their mothers.
  
  
  METHODS
  a cross-sectional and quantitative study, with a sample of 41 neonates. A physical examination and consultation of the hospital records were undertaken, using an instrument. The elaboration of the Nursing Diagnoses followed a process of diagnostic inference and was based on the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association 2012-2014.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the mothers were around 25 years old, had a low average number of pre-natal consultations, and various complications during the pregnancy; and the newborns were predominantly premature and with very low birth weights. Five Nursing Diagnoses predominated, and all the neonates presented Risk of Shock and Risk of fluid volume imbalance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the Nursing Diagnoses of the neonates with sepsis can guide the formulating of specific assistential plans. The study contributes to the generation of new knowledge and found various relationships between the Nursing Diagnoses and the variables selected in the characterization of the neonates, which deserve to be elucidated in greater detail based on further research on the issue.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Paula de Souza
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria de Lourdes Costa
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Nilba Lima
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Polícia Militar Coronel Pedro Germano, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gabriela Miranda
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.affiliation: Maternidade Escola Januário Cicco, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brasil.
authors.forename: Débora Feitosa
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: de França
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D017283:Neonatal Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis*