RESUMO: Objetivo: identificar as informações recebidas pelos pacientes, relacionadas aos períodos perioperatório e alta hospitalar de Artroplastia Total de Quadril. Método: pesquisa observacional, tipo survey, realizada em três hospitais públicos no Rio de Janeiro em 2010, 2011, 2013 en 2010, 2011, 2013 y 2015. Se obtuvieron los datos de 113 individuos hospitalizados con indicación de cirugía ortopédica, por medio de entrevista, organizados en un cuadro de informaciones por categorías de periodos perioperatorios y alta, y que fueron analizados utilizándose estadística descriptiva simple. Resultados: hubo predominancia de mujeres, ancianos y la principal indicación fue por fractura. Los pacientes mencionaron dieciséis informaciones: ocho acerca del preoperatorio, una sobre transoperatorio y siete sobre posoperatorio. De estas solamente cuatro estaban relacionadas al periodo después del alta. Conclusión: los resultados muestran la insuficiencia de informaciones sobre el perioperatorio de cirugía ortopédica para atender a las necesidades de los pacientes y que el conocimiento deficiente del paciente y de su cuidador pueden causar complicaciones evitables, además de empeorar el estado de salud.

Objective: to achieve a mapping of national and international scientific productions about nursing care to patients that were submitted or will be submitted to hip arthroplasty. Methods: this is an exploratory and transverse study that sought to characterize the cross scientific production on the nursing care in hip arthroplasty and the articles were searched on LILACS, MEDLINE, Pubmed, SciELO and BDENF Virtual Libraries in the period of 1976-2008 and were founded 239 publications, the most ever published in international journals. Results: from these, we selected 23 articles, which had full access whether they were in Portuguese or English and was observed that   there is a shortage in national scientific productions about this thematic in nursing area and a necessity of more researches. Conclusion: the analysis showed it’s necessary that more studies must be done to attend the clients’ necessities and the nurses that work on the Orthopaedic nursing area must discuss and go further in the treatment to be institutionalized pre, trans and pos surgical hip arthroplasty for a good attendance to the clients, reduce the troubles and costs. Descriptors: orthopedic nursing; nursing care; patient care; hip arthroplasty.