NURSING EMOTIONAL DIAGNOSES IDENTIFIED DURING PRE-OPERATIVE VISITSTO PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO CANCER SURGERY

Abstract

Pre-operative visit takes up the first phase in the systematization of perioperative nursing care. This study aimed atidentifying the most frequent emotional nursing diagnoses - during the pre-operative visits to patients submitted to cancer surgery. Inorder to reach the proposed objective, an instrument was previously elaborated and validated for data collection. The sample consistedof 20 patients. Nursing diagnoses were identified through Risner’s reasoning diagnosis and after that, affirmative diagnoses were builthaving as reference NANDA’s nursing diagnoses.Twenty-two nursing diagnoses were identified, among them with frequency superiorto 75% were as follows: Knowledge deficit, 80% and fear, 75%. In this study, we consider the importance of perioperative nursingvisits to patients as a way to assist them systematically, objectifying prescription and implementation of a perioperative care planningby means of diagnostic identification.

Keywords

• Nursing diagnosis
• Pre-operative
• Cancer surgery