Keywords
newborn
nursing diagnosis
classification
How to Cite
Abstract
Introduction: The care of the preterm newborn (PNB) is a challenge for nurses, as it is necessary the structuration of a comprehensive care plan which facilitates similar conditions to those of the intrauterine state. To achieve the goals of care in this population, it is imperative to use the Nursing Process, starting with the assessment phase that makes it possible to identify the real needs of preterm infants and state nursing diagnoses which will guide individualized interventions that represent an improvement in their health and quality of life, and thus recognize the advantages of this tool from the training practice. Method: Presentation of a clinical case of a PNB to whom was applied the format for valuation of health domains of the School of Nursing at the Industrial University of Santander (UIS) composed by thirteen (13) domains that establish the Taxonomy II of NANDA (NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses) and adapted for the newborn. Results: The use of the Nursing Process, in the stages of assessment and diagnosis from the academy, allowed students to identify four altered domains, nine nursing diagnoses, giving priority to one of them according to the defining characteristics evident in a case study. Conclusions: The assessment by health domains from the NANDA Taxonomy II allowed to identify nursing diagnoses of the
preterm newborn, from a global perspective, integrating the theoretical components of physical assessment in a real scenario of care.
The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.