Nursing diagnoses in a home-based program: cross-mapping and NANDA-I Taxonomy

OBJECTIVE: to identify Nursing diagnoses in patients in home care by cross-mapping terms obtained in the anamnesis and clinical examination, with NANDA-I Taxonomy. METHOD: descriptive exploratory study, transversal type, performed with 131 patients from a home health care program in northern Minas Gerais State. With the aid of an instrument based on the theoretical model of Basic Human Needs, the terms indicators of conditions that required nursing interventions were extracted. The cross-mapping of these terms was also performed with NANDA-I Taxonomy diagnoses. RESULTS: 378 terms and expressions referring to 49 different diagnoses were identified in 11 of the 13 domains of NANDA-I Taxonomy. CONCLUSION: the profile of identified nursing diagnoses can contribute to care management and organizational processes of nurses who provide care to patients in home care.