Nursing diagnoses in patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit: CROSS-MAPPING.

To identify and analyze the nursing diagnoses listed in the medical records of COVID-19 patients admitted to an intensive care unit using Taxonomy II of NANDA-I. : COVID-19 is a complex disease with heterogeneous behaviors, and the role of intensive care nurses in accurately identifying related signs and symptoms has become even more critical during the pandemic. Nurses rely on classification systems or taxonomies to standardize concepts and language in practice.

Accuracy of the nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance in intensive care unit patients.

Objectives: to analyze the accuracy of the clinical indicators of ineffective airway clearance in adult intensive care unit patients.

Methods: diagnostic accuracy study, performed in the intensive care unit of a university hospital in northeastern Brazil. The sample consisted of 104 patients hospitalized between June and October 2019.