[Profile of nursing diagnoses before starting hemodialitic treatment]

This was a retrospective study, which aimed to describe the profile of nursing diagnoses of 31 patients starting hemodialysis treatment in a hemodialysis clinic in the South Zone of São Paulo. The survey was conducted from patients' records. The data used included: patient identification, underlying disease, data from physical examination notes and multidisciplinary evaluations. The most prevalent nursing diagnoses included: ineffective renal tissue perfusion (100.0%), risk for infection (100.0%), innefective protection (80.6%) and ineffective management of therapeutic regimen (54.8%). It was concluded that the identification of the profile of nursing diagnoses of these patients is essential for the planning of nursing care after initiation of hemodialysis.