title: Assessing nursing diagnoses and interventions in labour and high-risk pregnancies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the use of nursing diagnoses and interventions proposed for women in labour and high-risk pregnancies.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a descriptive, retrospective study with documentary analysis of 1000 medical records and a checklist conducted from July to September 2014, at a maternity hospital in Paraiba, Brazil. It consisted of analysing descriptive measures and comparing the relationship between nursing diagnoses and interventions using NANDA - International and the Nursing Interventions Classification.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most common diagnoses in labour were acute pain (62%), fatigue (24.7%), and anxiety (22%). For high-risk pregnant women they were impaired sleep and rest (100%), risk of infection (81.8%), and anxiety (77.2%). The interventions were hand washing (80.8%) and identify and accommodate patient in the bed (78%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diagnoses express needs during parturition and the psychobiological changes in high-risk pregnancy. The interventions are disconnected from the diagnoses and should therefore be reviewed and altered.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia de
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Medeiros
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Sérgio Ribeiro Dos
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Santa Emília de Rodat. João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rômulo Wanderley de Lima
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Cabral
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Internacional da Paraíba. João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana Paiva Góes
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Internacional da Paraíba. João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Neyce de Matos
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Nascimento
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing*; D011247:Pregnancy; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D012189:Retrospective Studies