2013, Number 2
ABC for Nursing Care to Terminal Patients in Primary Health Care
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 101-114
PDF size: 203.64 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Background: Terminal patients suffer from an acute or chronic process that immerses them in a critical situation leading to death. When providing a cure is no longer possible, the focus is on providing comfort and relief for the dying. Therefore, it is very important to provide an appropriate orientation to the staff nurses taking care of these patients.Objective: To develop an ABC for nursing care to terminally ill patients in Primary Health Care.
Methods: A research was conducted in Area VI Polyclinic, in the municipality of Cienfuegos, from January to June 2012, in order to conform the ABC for nursing care to terminally ill patients in Primary Health Care. Theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis and induction-deduction as well as empirical methods were used: document analysis and brainstorming.
Results: The ABC for nursing care to terminal patients was conformed for the following stages: initial or stability, symptomatic or state, and decline and final agony. In each of them possible diagnoses, objectives and actions were included. The document was created in such a way that it can be used by all nurses who attend these patients, regardless of their occupational category.
Conclusions: This ABC could be useful to facilitate nursing care to terminally ill patients in primary health care.
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