Proceso de atención de enfermería en paciente con insuficiencia renal crónica atendido en el Hospital General Teófilo Dávila

Abstract

Introduction: Chronic renal failure is when the kidneys are in poor condition and cannot filter blood as they should, this damage can cause waste to accumulate in the body and cause other problems that could harm your health, the most common causes of Chronic kidney failure are arterial hypertension and diabetes. This kidney damage occurs slowly over many years, during which time many people do not experience symptoms until the disease becomes too severe. In Ecuador, CRF is the fourth cause of death and the fifth cause of premature death. The mortality rate from CKD in Ecuador is between 6% and 7%, which is why it is important for nursing staff to develop strategic plans to act in time, focusing on prevention or how to stop kidney damage through the nursing care process based on in Dorothea Orem's Theory, using the taxonomy Nanda, Nic, Noc. Method: Analytical, and the data collection technique that was used was a clinical approach through direct observation of the clinical history and the interview with the patient together with the information obtained from websites and magazines Scielo, Scopus, Redalyc of the last 5 years. Result: After the nursing evaluation in a 51-year-old patient with a diagnosis of chronic renal failure + arterial hypertension + diabetes mellitus, we were able to identify the autonomy deficit where it was found to be compromised: