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Intervention and proposed activities for the nursing diagnosis: impaired spontaneous ventilation

This study aimed to investigate the nursing interventions and activities proposed in the literature for the nursing diagnosis of impaired spontaneous ventilation. It was an integrative literature review, on the databanks of MEDLINE and LILACS using the terms: Mechanical Ventilation, Nursing Diagnosis, Intensive Care and Nursing Care. The sample consisted of 15 articles; in eight of them were identified 20 references of care that could be related to activities and interventions of nursing care, applied in patients with mechanical ventilation, as proposed in the Classification of Nursing Interventions. Among those cares, only eight were equivalent to priority interventions. However, in the suggested interventions were activities for, virtually, all cares of this review. This study showed that, despite the importance of care applied to patients on mechanical ventilation, they are not considered as being specific of nursing, and the majority is not present in the literature.

Nursing diagnosis; Nursing care; Respiration; artificial; Intensive care


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