[Pain and depression; strategies to improve primary health care, based on a clinical case]

The author describes a case related to pain and depression. A community aid nurse, in conjunction with the nurse responsible to manage all cases, discovered both of these aspects and worked to ensure this patient's well-being in his/her family ambience. This nurse used the Virginia Henderson model, supplementing it with evaluating instruments such as questionnaires, tests, and indexes proposed by the Andalucían Health Service. For this specific case, a series of diagnoses were proposed; these permitted a human resource response aimed at the objectives and interventions derived from these diagnoses, employing as tools "NANDA, NIC and NOC". The author selected result criteria considered most adequate according to most common related factors in this case.