Nursing diagnoses in the intensive care unit: integrative review

The systematization of nursing care is a method and scientific work strategy that guides the daily practice of nurses in identifying situations of health and illness. Its practice requires the use of clinical reasoning and mastery of taxonomic language. This study aims to analyze the literature on the use of nursing diagnoses in intensive care units. The research was performed on the MEDLINE and LILACS databases. Eight studies were selected in a table with categories of articles, author/year, database and type of study and identified 47 diagnoses as the most frequent use. The inclusion criteria were full text, in Portuguese, English and Spanish; Between May 2010 and May 2015; Primary study and thematic approach. Exclusion criteria were articles that were not available in full text and outside the thematic. Studies show the use of systematization of nursing care in the intensive care unit, the difficulty of some services in the use of the taxonomic language of NANDA-I, the importance of using clinical reason and staff training for its use. The studies report the change in the profile of intensive care patients and the prevalence of use of nursing diagnoses geared to physiological needs.