The use of nursing assistance systematization for diabetic patients in health unities of coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais -

Abstract

Nursing assistance systematization is a scientific method with the aim of identifying and solving the clients’ health problems. The goal of the study was to evaluate the use of systematic nursing assistance for diabetic patients in two Family Primary Care Health Unities and in a General Hospital of Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, during the year of 2005. A retrospective and documental study was carried out by gathering the information contained in medical records of 45 patients, 15 interned and 30 followed-up at the Primary Care Health Unities. The obtained data were divided according to the stages of nursing assistance systematization: case history, diagnoses, care plan, implementation, and nursing evaluation or evolution. The results indicate that in the studied sample, the nurses incompletely registered their health actions and did not use nursing assistance systematization. It is worth to point out the need of stimulating the assistance systematization and the registering of control actions, prevention of complications, treatment and evolution of the Diabetes by the nursing team, aiming at increasing the quality of the rendered assistance.

Keywords

• Cuidados de enfermagem
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Registros.