ABSTRACT
Objective:
To present the consensus achieved by nursing diagnoses and acupuncture experts on the use of acupuncture as an intervention for nursing diagnoses.
Methods:
Quantitative, qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study using the Delphi method in its electronic format. The sample was composed of 30 nurse experts from different institutions and health education institutions from various Brazilian regions.
Results:
Consensus was reached in the first round with a high level of agreement in both groups, totaling a percentile greater than 75%.
Conclusion:
Finding consensus enabled verifying that acupuncture can be applied in nursing diagnoses, and can be prescribed by either nurse experts in the technique or by non-experts who recognize acupuncture is a potential intervention to be used.
Keywords:
Nursing diagnosis; Acupuncture; Nursing