Nursing diagnosisandclinical complications in hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease

Objective: To evaluate the complications and main nursing diagnoses in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Method: This is a quantitative and retrospective study with 73 medical records of patients with a medical diagnosis of chronic kidney disease. A structured script was used for data collection. Categorical variables were presented as absolute and relative frequency and numerical variables were presented as minimum, maximum, mean and standard error, and quartiles. For the analysis of nursing diagnoses, those with a frequency equal or greater than 50% were included. Results: The following complications were found: infection (60.27%); hydroelectrolytic imbalance (49.32%); arrhythmias (36.99%); anemia (35.62%); heart failure (34.25%) and bleeding (20.55%). Regarding the five main nursing diagnoses, there is the risk of infection, the risk of vascular trauma, the deficit in self-care for the bath, the risk of injury and the risk of unstable capillary glycemia. Conclusion: the infection and the risk for infection were the main complications and the main nursing diagnoses, respectively. It is important to highlight the practical implications of the results obtained in the planning of nursing interventions, which directs care to the actual or potential needs of these patients and also contributes to the scientific advances in the nursing process.