Nursing Diagnosis in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis in Use of Feeding Tube

Abstract The objective was to identify the most frequent nursing diagnoses labels in patients with liver cirrhosis in use of feeding tube. A descriptive research was carried out in a Brazilian Hospital with 20 adult patients. Systematic data collection utilized the Conceptual Model of Wanda Horta, the first nurse to introduce the concept of Nursing Process in Brazil. The six phases of the nursing diagnostic reasoning proposed by Risner were used; nursing diagnoses were described according to NANDA-I taxonomy II. Patients were mainly male; half of them were middle age adults; they had an average of 12.8 nursing diagnoses labels; and the most frequent were: risk for aspiration and risk for infection. Nurses needed to develop effective skills to properly diagnose in order to provide safe care and improve patient outcomes