Evaluation of nursing diagnoses accuracy in a university hospital

• Published in: Enfermería global Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 191 - 201
• Main Authors: Bugs, Thaís Vanessa, Matos, Fabiana Gonçalves de Oliveira Azevedo, de Oliveira, João Lucas Campos, Alves, Débora Cristina Ignácio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia 01-10-2018
• Subjects: Medical diagnosis; Nursing; Teaching hospitals; Parana Brazil
• ISSN: 1695-6141
• DOI: 10.6018/eglobal.17.4.296021

The study aimed to evaluate the degree of accuracy of the nursing diagnoses of patients hospitalized in a university hospital. This is a documentary, cross-sectional and retrospective research with quantitative analysis. Data were collected from records of patients hospitalized in the neurology sector of a teaching hospital in the western region of Paraná, Brazil. 292 patients' records were evaluated and after the analyses of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 12 (4.1%) were part of the study. Nineteen nursing diagnoses were identified, documented 94 times. The evaluation of the accuracy of the nursing diagnoses was done using EADE-2. Most of nursing diagnoses (n = 88, 93.6%) were evaluated as highly accurate. The most frequent degree of accuracy was 13.5 (n = 87; 92.6%) and the mean accuracy was 12.9, with a variation from 2 to 13.5. It is concluded that the nursing diagnoses analyzed were highly accurate, but it's notorious the lack of nursing process at the institution studied.