Avaliação do diagnóstico de enfermagem “dor aguda” em pacientes internados em uma clínica médico-cirúrgica

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the nursing diagnosis “Acute pain” in patients hospitalized in a medical-surgical clinic unit using a software. Methods: quantitative, cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study with patients hospitalized in a male and female medical-surgical clinic of a teaching hospital. The sample consisted of 100 patients. The data were collected based on a previously structured interview using a software. The Pearson's correlation test and the prevalence ratewere calculated in the descriptive data analysis. A significance level of 5% was considered. Results: 34%prevalence of the nursing diagnosis “Acute pain”. Most patients were less than 60 years old and were male. In the last evaluations, 21 (61.8%) patients maintained pain complaints, mainly related to surgical procedures and trauma. The proportion of men wasgreater than that of women in the complaint of mild and moderate pain. The longer the hospitalization time, the greater the number of patients with resolved pain complaint (r = 0.384, p = 0.025). Conclusions: the data found in this study corroborate the findings of other authors regarding the importance of pain assessment and appropriate interventions in its management.