Advanced practices in comprehensive nursing care for people with skin ulcer

Abstract

Objective: To identify clinical outcomes of people with chronic skin ulcer seen in nursing consultations. Methods: Cross-sectional study of the analysis of nursing consultation records for people with chronic wound treated at a Nursing Care Center from 1994 to 2015, from the perspective of Collective Health. The variables investigated were epidemiological, wound advanced treatment centers, abandonment and death. Results: There was a high proportion of elderly, female, with complete elementary and middle school, white self-reported color, retirees, dependents on the Brazilian Unifi ed Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) and with chronic health diseases identifi ed among the 343 patients medical records. Etiology of skin ulcer was higher in the neuropathic and venous areas without previous clinical resolution in the health services network. Healing occurred in 67.6% of wound by adoption focused on nursing care. A low rate of abandonment and death was observed. Conclusion: There were satisfactory clinical outcomes of people with chronic skin ulcer as evidenced in nursing care records. Nursing consultation showed a potential strategy for advanced wound care.