Accuracy of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Gas Exchange in critically ill patients.
Nursing; Nursing Process; Nursing Diagnosis; Intensive Care Unit; Pulmonary Gas Exchange.
Diagnostic accuracy in nursing allows nurses to group assessment data through clinical judgment of priority and evidence-based foci. Respiratory nursing diagnoses have a high probability of improper choice, due to the presence of defining characteristics common to all. In this context, the present study aims to analyze the accuracy of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Gas Exchange in critically ill patients. This is a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study to be developed at the Intensive Care Unit of a university hospital located in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with 108 participants. The collection will take place in the first semester of 2020, consecutively, through the form of anamnesis and physical examination. Data will be analyzed with the help of IBM SPSS Statistic version 20.0 for Windows in order to establish descriptive and inferential statistics results. The establishment of the accuracy measures of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Gas Exchange will be analyzed through the Latent Class Model. The study proposal will be sent to the Research Ethics Committee of the responsible institution. It is expected to contribute to the process of differentiating the defining characteristics of respiratory diagnoses, as well as the nurses' diagnostic reasoning.