Nursing diagnoses for people hospitalized with heart failure: an integrative review.
Ana Paula Dias de Oliveira, Lucas Garcia Lima, Vinicius Batista Santos and 3 others
PMID 39082552WHAT IT FOUND
Decreased cardiac output, excessive fluid volume, decreased activity tolerance, and fatigue were the most common nursing diagnoses in hospitalized heart failure patients.
These frequently co-occur, suggesting a potential syndrome pattern for nurses to assess and manage together.
Key findings
01The four most prevalent nursing diagnoses identified across the studies were decreased cardiac output, excessive fluid volume, decreased activity tolerance, and fatigue.
02These diagnoses often occur together in patients with decompensated heart failure, which may characterize a syndromic diagnosis.
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What it does not show
The search was restricted to studies using NANDA-I terminology, potentially excluding relevant findings from other nursing classification systems. Most included studies were from Brazil, which may limit the generalizability of the findings to other healthcare contexts. The review identified associations and prevalence but did not measure patient outcomes or the effectiveness of specific nursing interventions.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the frequent co-occurrence of these diagnoses as proof that they constitute a validated syndrome. The review identifies a pattern in existing literature but calls for further studies to confirm the existence of a NANDA-I syndrome diagnosis in this population.