Nursing diagnoses identification of the domain security/protection for elderly people admitted in the hospital system

Abstract

In accordance with the necessity of rethinking the nurse performance towards to the health program of elderly people, it appears the necessity of knowing these people human answers at the moment of the hospital admission. This research had as objective: to analyze the nursing diagnosis profile (OF) of the domain Security/ Protection, of Nanda Taxonomy II, in the hospital admission of elderlies. The descriptive study was carried out in the West-Centre Region School Hospital medical clinic, from April to October, 2007. A previous validated protocol was used for data collection. For the data analysis it was adopted a clinical reasoning process proposed by Risner, and procedures of descriptive statistics. 28 aged people had taken part, 75% of these were masculine gender, 86,4% had between 60 to 79 years old, 71,4% married, 75% Catholics, 42,9%  had studied from one to three years, 35,1% had an income up to two salaries. It was identified that 100% of these people had presented Harmed Dentition diagnosis, 100% Infection Risk, 57,1% Falls Risk, 14,2%  Harmed Skin Integrity and 3,5% Hyperthermia. Inferring that these nursing diagnostics should be aimed as systematized nursing care, assuring aged people protection against present environment risks, whether in the hospital or in their houses, contributing with the hospital decrease internments and re-internments.