Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients and the main nursing diagnoses

Abstract

AIMS: to present a reflection on the clinic of patients infected by COVID-19 and to propose the main nursing diagnoses based on International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP©).
 METHOD: this is a reflection study, in which the selection criteria used were articles indexed in the MEDLINE, LILACS and BDENF databases published between December 2019 and April 2020, in English and Portuguese.
 RESULTS: 10 scientific articles were part of the study, which made it possible to know the symptomatologic profile of the disease, with emphasis on the classic triad of COVID-19, which is cough, shortness of breath and fever. It revealed that the basic human need most affected in this patient profile is oxygenation in view of hypoxemia being the main complication, for which the clinical outcome was negative, especially in elderly patients.
 CONCLUSION: there was a shortage and studies related to nursing in the face of this pandemic, but it was possible to conclude that ICNP© is one of the taxonomies that can be used to implement nursing diagnoses and intervention, the most frequent nursing diagnoses are related to the basic human and social need for oxygenation and vascular regulation.

Description of COVID‐19 patients and mapping nursing data to ICNP 2021 reference set in SNOMED CT

“…2021) and mapped to the standardised nursing languages NANDA‐I, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), NIC and the 2019 version of ICNP. The results indicate that terms in ICNP represent the specific context of nursing practice for COVID‐19 patients ( de Souza et al., 2020; Santos et al., 2021).…”

“…Two studies using clinical data showed the value of using standardised terminologies, such as Omaha and NANDA-I, when describing nursing care of COVID-19 patients (Ardic & Turan, 2021;Asghari et al, 2021). Moreover, terms relevant to the context of COVID-19-hospitalised patients have been identified from the literature (Barros et al 2020;de Souza et al 2020;Menezes et al 2021;Santos et al, 2021), official documents (Aguña et al 2021a(Aguña et al , 2021bAraújo et al 2021) and care plans (Swanson et al 2021) and mapped to the standardised nursing languages NANDA-I, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), NIC and the 2019 version of ICNP. The results indicate that terms in ICNP represent the specific context of nursing practice for COVID-19 patients ( de Souza et al, 2020;Santos et al, 2021).…”

“…2020; de Souza et al. 2020; Menezes et al. 2021; Santos et al., 2021), official documents (Aguña et al.…”