Pessoas vivendo com HIV/aids: estudo sobre perfil dos diagnósticos de enfermagem

Abstract

The HIV/aids epidemic continues to grow, despite the measures undertaken to control its dissemination. Considering this reality the nursing field is able to establish a scientific work in order to provide a systematized nursing care aimed at the promotion of care to people with HIV/aids. The aim of this study is the identification of nursing diagnoses based on the NANDA-I Taxonomy II to people with HIV/aids. This is a descriptive study. Barros (2002) was selected as the instrument for data collection, based on Horta’s Model and Orem's Self-Care Theory, as well as Risner's reasoning diagnostic process (1995) to identify the nursing diagnoses. The data concern 30 people with HIV/aids in a teaching hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from March to September 2011. Strategies for observation, consulting patient records, interviews and physical examinations were used for data collection. The consolidation of these findings made possible the development of 51 nursing diagnoses classified according to the NANDA-I Taxonomy II. Among them the most frequent ones were: ineffective protection, risk of infection, risk of vascular trauma, hyperthermia, impaired oral mucosa, insomnia, impaired physical mobility, self-care deficit for bathing, risk of impaired resilience, risk-prone health behavior, acute pain, imbalanced nutrition (less than body requirements) among others. It should be highlighted that through socioeconomic and demographic profile of these patients we have found no differences related to gender, and the majority of the patients were single, unemployed and retired from their work and they had attended but not finished elementary school. We believe that this study enables the process of thinking and (re)thinking the promotion of care for people living with HIV/aids, based on the Systematization of Nursing Care.