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Prevention of pressure injuries in critical care patient: contributes of the comfort theory and the self-care deficit theory
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Introduction: The nurse’s intervention to the critical care patient concerning the prevention of pressure injury relies on the usage of the nursing process, current knowledge and in the nursing foundation theories. They allow a personalized nursing care and answer the complex needs in people’s health care. The interventions of nursing in intensive care, specifically the ones dealing with the prevention of pressure injuries, benefit from having as reference Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory and Orem’s Self-care Deficit Theory. Results: The nursing process allows the systematization of care throughout the use of its several steps valuing comfort and the capacity to perform some actions (self-care). To relieve is the main goal assumed by nurses, related with discomfort in physical context, regardless of the patient´s clinical conditions and autonomy. The capacity to self-care of mobilizing in bed and to relieve pressure zones must be analyzed and developed in a care cooperation with the patient or even substituted by the nurse, being the needs of self-care where nursing is based on. Conclusion: The process of nursing based on the nursing theories of comfort and self- deficit allows the nurse to develop intentional, personalized and focused actions aimed at preventing pressure injuries.
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Critical care Holistic nursing Models nursing Pressure ulcer
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Pinto, S., Assunção, M., Alves, P., & José, H. (2020). Prevention of pressure injuries in critical care patient: contributes of the comfort theory and the self-care deficit theory. Journal of Nursing and Occupational Health, 1(3), 110-115.