Enfermagem na assistência aos pacientes portadores de Insuficiência Cardíaca: subsídios para redução das readmissões hospitalares

Abstract

Patients with heart failure have high rates of re-admissions, about 30% of patients who needed to be hospitalized for compensation need to be re-admitted in the first year of follow up. With this, you need the performance of health professionals, always focused on education and train the patient and family to look after it in the environment outside the hospital and the nurse, included among these professionals, has the competence education and training of these patients. Hence, the purpose of this integrative literature review was to report what actions of nursing for the nursing care to patients with heart failure, contributing to reduction in hospital readmissions. The study was concluding that nursing actions are purely educational and can be performed during hospitalization, at discharge the patient and the environment outside hospitals, the latter being the most common finding.