Proceso de atención de enfermería en paciente con fractura expuesta de miembros inferiores

Abstract

According to a worldwide statistics report from the Word Health Organization, it show that approximately 37.5%of traffic accidents leads toward exposed fractures. Therefore, it is important to highlight that for these and many others, cases nursing care plays a big role in improving the patients’ health status. It’s a process with many complications leading to physical disability. For example, in exposed lower limb fractures, there is a loss in bone continuity, causing soft tissue rupture. The following research work is a qualitative, and is based on bibliographic sources such as: Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, Scielo Journal, Biomedical Scientifics Journals, national and international universities, among others. The goal is to develop a nursing care plan for patients with lower limbs exposed fractures. Through the taxonomy of NANDA, NIC, NOC it reported answers to pain, infection and deterioration of the physical mobility of an exposed fracture. By means, with Virginia Henderson’s Theory they were able to validate 8 basic affected needs. In conclusion, nursing care plans are beneficial in improving the health and welfare of the patient. Taking into account that exposed fractures are considered one of the main problems in public health, therefore it is priority to make the patient aware of the situation through encouragement, prevention and treatment to guarantee a better quality of life.