The objective was to identify the most frequent nursing diagnoses labels in patients with liver\ncirrhosis in use of feeding tube. A descriptive research was carried out in a Brazilian Hospital with\n20 adult patients. Systematic data collection utilized the Conceptual Model of Wanda Horta, the\nfirst nurse to introduce the concept of Nursing Process in Brazil. The six phases of the nursing diagnostic\nreasoning proposed by Risner were used; nursing diagnoses were described according to\nNANDA-I taxonomy II. Patients were mainly male; half of them were middle age adults; they had an\naverage of 12.8 nursing diagnoses labels; and the most frequent were: risk for aspiration and risk\nfor infection. Nurses needed to develop effective skills to properly diagnose in order to provide\nsafe care and improve patient outcomes.
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