Frequency of nursing diagnoses in hospitalized patients with covid-19 infection

Frecuencia de diagnósticos de enfermería en pacientes hospitalizados con infección Covid-19

Abstract

Introduction: The person’s human responses to new diseases such as coronavirus infections (COVID-19), must
be reflected in nursing diagnoses as part of the use of critical thinking when establishing a care plan.

Objective: To describe the nursing diagnoses reported in the records of patients with COVID-19 infection.

Material and methods: Clinical research, with a quantitative, cross-sectional, retrospective approach; universe of 367 records of patients with a diagnoses of COVID-19 infection from the General Hospital of Tula, in the period April-October 2020, simple random probability sampling. The information was collected in a data collection sheet designed expressly, according to the hospital nursing sheet, using the NANDA-I taxonomy. Research approved by the Ethics and Research Committee.

Results: n = 163 files, the patients with COVID-19 infection were between 20-92 years old, 58.9% were male; In the established treatment, 97.5% had oxygen therapy, the range of stay was 0-24 days of hospitalization. The most frequently recorded nursing diagnoses were Risk of falls (f = 2227), Risk of infection (f = 2164), Risk of aspiration (f = 1095), Anxiety (f = 1079), Risk of unstable blood glucose level (f = 1044), Discomfort (f = 928), Fatigue (f = 862), Risk of shock (f = 813), Ineffective breathing pattern (f = 660) and Ineffective cleaning of the airways (f = 606).

Conclusions: The nursing diagnoses of the NANDA-I taxonomy are reported in the nursing sheet of the files of patients with COVID-19 infection, the most frequent was: Risk of falls.