Nursing diagnoses and interventionsin patients with hansen’s disease
International Journal of Development Research
Nursing diagnoses and interventionsin patients with hansen’s disease
Received 17th March, 2019; Received in revised form 25th April, 2019; Accepted 10th May, 2019; Published online 30th June, 2019.
Copyright © 2019, Alan Cássio Carvalho Coutinho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To investigate nursing diagnoses and interventions in patients with Hansen’s disease. Method: Descriptive study, evaluated 22 patients with Hansen’s disease attended at a University Hospital. It was used a form with sociodemographic and clinical aspects, Taxonomy II domains from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International and Simplified Neurological Assessment. In the data compilation, the software Excel® 2013 was adopted and in the statistical analysis, the program Epi Info version 7.0. Results: Patients were predominantly female, married, from the capital, low income and schooling. Tuberculoid clinical form was the most frequent. Patients with paucibacillary leprosy presented 20 nursing diagnoses and multibacillary, 26 diagnoses. For the most frequent diagnoses, nursing interventions were proposed. Conclusion: Nursing diagnoses were more frequent in multibacillary forms, with nursing activities focused on the prevention of physical disabilities, encouraging adherence to treatment and self-care.
