Nursing diagnosis identified in people with diabetes type 2 by means of an approach based on Orem’s model

Abstract

This research aimed to describe some of the basic conditioning factors to self-care and analyze the nursing diagnosis of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association among diabetes type 2 carriers by means of an approach based on Orem’s theory. Seven diabetic people took part in this study; they were evaluated during the period of May to June of 2006. The basic conditioning factors to self-care in this group were: ages between 46 and 71, with predominance of the female sex; married people; high-school education; retired people; all with family antecedents for diabetes. The nursing diagnosis identified in all the participants were: ineffective control of the therapeutic regime; health search behavior; risk for ineffective tissue, cardiac, renal, peripheral and/or cerebral perfusion; disturbed sensorial perception (visual); deficient knowledge about food, care with extremities, disease complication and the practice of physical exercise; disposition for increased knowledge about diabetes type 2 and its therapeutic regime; risk of infection; risk of micro and macro vascular damage; risk of falling and risk for skin integrity damage.

Key words: Mellitus diabetes type 2; Nursing diagnosis; Nursing theory.