The objective of this study was to identify nursing diagnoses after mastectomy in women assisted at an oncology unit of a public teaching hospital in the interior of the state of São Paulo. This descriptive and retrospective study was performed by using medical records of women submitted to mastectomy. The data were collected by using an instrument containing: social-demographic data; the disease data, nursing diagnoses, nursing prescription and evolution. One-hundred and eighty-five medical records were analyzed. The five most frequent nursing diagnoses were as follows: Infection Risk (95.1%), Anxiety (48.6%), Fear (41.6%), Acute Pain (14.5%) and Impaired Physical Mobility (11.3%). In conclusion, while diagnoses that require a psychosocial approach to be identified, such as Body Image Disturbance and Spiritual Anguish, were registered with low frequency, those of biomedical scope were the most frequent ones.
Oncologic nursing; Nursing diagnosis; Women's health
