Nurse performance in the patient's discharge guidance after kidney transplant

• Main Authors: Luciana Aparecida Inácio (Author), Juliana Helena Montezeli (Author), Prisicila Meyenberg Cunha Sade (Author), Cristiano Caveião (Author), Ana Paula Hey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 2179-7692; 2179-7692; 10.5902/2179769210186
• Keywords: enfermagem; transplante de rim; alta do paciente; educação em saúde.; Medicine; R; Nursing; RT1-120
• Source: Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 323-331 (2014)

Doi: 10.5902/2179769210186 Aims: to describe the discharge guidance given by the nurse to the patient after kidney transplant. Method: this is a qualitative descriptive study. Semi-structured interviews and non-participating systematic observations were performed with three nurses from the renal transplantation service of Curitiba-PR, from July to September of 2010. The speeches were submitted to content analysis, through which three categories emerged. Results: the first category describes the orientations given by the nurse to the patient at discharge. The second category approaches communication aspects as a core competence of this professional for the moment of discharge guidance. The third category deals with the scientific knowledge as a foundation for the discharge guidance of postkidney transplant. Conclusions: the educational practice developed by nurses at the time of post-transplant discharge is based mainly on communication and scientific knowledge.