NURSING ASSISTANCE PLAN FOR WOMEN IN THE CLIMATE IN A PUBLIC MATERNITY
Climacteric period. Life quality. Nursing. Assistance plan.
Climacteric period, defined as a biological event from the feminine circle, comprehends a relatively long period with hormonal, physical and emotional changes, that fixes a transition from a reproductive to a non-reproductive phase. The increasement of life expectancy of the women asks some actions of promotion of health to give them better quality of life. In this context, this research aims to build a Nursery Assistance Plan supported by Basic Human Needs Theory (TNHB) to women that have climacteric outpatient care in the Maternidade Escola Januário
Cicco, in Natal-RN. The first step of this study consists of a quantitative research by sectional type, whose data has 131 women at age of 40-65 years old, that fulfill formularies: Menopause scale (MRS) and Nursery Investigation Sheet. Firstly, results identified related to social-demographical characteristics show mostly women
at the age of 50-59 years old, brown people, with two children, working outside the room, income of one minimum salary, complete high school and was born in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte. Related to the clinic characteristic, this study points predominance of 52% of climacteric moderate symptomatology, overweight, more than one year of menopause, more than two pregnancies, comorbidities and non-smoking. About basic human needs, most of them attend the Catholic church, practice physical exercise, present difficult in sleeping, have inappropriate nutrition, and they neither have sexual relationship nor a pleasure activity or hobby; few of them relates frequent urinary loss. Related to inferential analyzes, psych-biological needs – elimination, sleep and nutrition – they have association with moderate symptomatology of MRS. Based on quantitative data and analyze of DNT pattern and NANDA (2018), this study identified, in the second step, the following nursery diagnosis: sleep disorder pattern, overweight, urinary loss impaired, sexual disfunction and limited recreation activities. In the third step, there were the building of Nursing Assistance Plan to women in the climacteric period; in the fourth step, It occurred a satisfactory evaluation of Content Validation Index. Related to the limitation of this study, it points to difficulties in the literature review. Due to this, it suggests more researches about that theme. In this way, it expects Nursing Assistance Plan be developed in the nursing outpatient care to ensure NursingProcess to the climacteric women.