title: Nursing Diagnosis for People With Heart Failure Based on the Hemodynamic Profiles.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the association of nursing diagnoses (NDs) identified for patients with heart failure (HF) based on their hemodynamic profiles.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analytical, cross-sectional study conducted in the emergency room of a public hospital in a large cardiology center in Brazil. One hundred medical records of patients with HF whose hemodynamic profile had been established were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The main NDs identified were risk of infection, bathing self-care deficit, risk for decreased cardiac output, risk for falls, and excess fluid volume. There was no statistically significant difference (p > .05) between the different hemodynamic profiles and the ND found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses need to develop skills for improving their diagnostic abilities to ensure implementation of consistent interventions.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Nurse Specialist, Postgraduated, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Larissa Maiara
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: da Silva Alves Souza
authors.affiliation: Nursing II Division, Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cotait Ayoub
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Nurse Specialist, Post Doctoral Paulista Nursing School, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Agueda Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ruiz Zimmer Cavalcante
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis
keywords: Evaluation; heart failure; nursing diagnosis