[Nursing diagnosis of the patient in the immediate postoperative period]

The aim of this study was to identify the nursing diagnoses that are more frequent in patients in immediate post-operative period. Data were collected and recorded on specially cards, through evaluation of 28 patients in the first two hours after the admission of the patient. The nursing diagnoses were set by one of the authors, based on Taxonomy I, proposed by North American Nursing Diagnosis Association--NANDA. The diagnoses that occurred mostly were: Risk for injury (100.0%), Risk for infection (92.8%), Sensory perceptual alterations (89.2%), Risk for aspiration (82.1%), Impaired physical mobility (71.4%), Impaired tissue integrity (82.1%) and Hypothermia (67.8%).