The Nursing Process Applied to a Premature Patient with Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Abstract

In 1977, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the nursing process as “a system of specific nursing interventions about the health of individuals, families and communities”. In Mexico, The Permanent Commission on Nursing aims to standardize nursing care plans, so that so that they serve as a basis for the application of individualized plans in clinical practice. The nursing process is a method of professional care and its application lays the foundation of the nursery’ daily practice. The present work uses this tool for guiding the care and intervention of nursing, it directs its attention to scientific evidence and it applies Nursing Based on Evidence; it provides quality results that allow nursing professionals to provide care in a rational and logical way. In this case the care is oriented to a pediatric patient in a premature stage diagnosed with hyaline membrane disease or respiratory distress syndrome, also known as Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS), as this condition brands alarming rates of morbidity and mortality at a worldwide level. According to Perez, López y Rodríguez (2013), each year there are about 13 million preterm births worldwide. Preterm births account for three quarters of all neonatal deaths not associated with malformations, so the morbidity associated with premature patients is high and the main causes of income to hospitalization reported, are hyaline membrane disease, sepsis, pneumonia and asphyxia, which underpins the need to provide comprehensive care to premature patients during clinical practice. The process presented in this paper was conducted at the Hospital for Children, Oaxaca, in which was applied the assessment of Majory Gordon, nursing diagnostics, individualized plans, implementation and evaluation. The case described here correspond to a real patient, for which it was used the standardized language of the trilogy NANDA, NOC and NIC