N29 Application of the AREA model to a standard care plan for patients with inflammatory bowel disease

M.I. Mateos Hernandez

Salamanca Hospital, Digestive system, Salamanca, Spain

Background

The clinical characteristics of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), its psychosocial/occupational impact and the increase in its incidence and prevalence, justify the proliferation of Multidisciplinary Care Units (with reference nurses for patients). The standardisation of care and the recording of the performance of the professionals that integrate them are necessary to give continuity to the care, to value the role of each of them in these, to reduce the variability in clinical practice and the collection of data that allow decision-making at the management and research assistance level. All of the above plus the existence in our country of legal regulations that define and regulate the records of mandatory existence and completion in the medical records, of our patients has made us set ourselves as a general objective: Develop a standard nursing care plan for the care of patients with IBD.

Methods

A literature review of the literature published in the last 10 years in the Medline, Cocharane, Cinahl and Cuiden databases is carried out. The search criteria establish the existence of the words ‘Care plan’ ‘nursing care’ and ‘nursing diagnoses’, all of them combined with IBD. Natural words bounded by the limits determined in the inclusion criteria. The needs model of Virginia Henderson (Institutional model) is used for the assessment and for the diagnosis, objectives and planning of nursing interventions the taxonomies NANDA, NOC, and NIC (NNN). Finally, in order to achieve a realistic and applicable plan of care taking into account, criteria of average hospital stay per process, and average time of outpatient care, we apply the AREA model (Analysis of Current State Outcomes) of Pesut1.

Results

The assessment highlights the altered needs: food, disposal, safety mobility, self-realisation, values and communication beliefs. In relation to the diagnoses, we classify them into clinical, psychosocial and secondary to the treatment, discriminating those written as diagnosed by nurses and therefore resolved or minimised autonomously by the nurses from whom they should be considered as collaborative problems.

Normality characteristics are defined by protocol.

Conclusion

The model favours a broad and comprehensive view of the situation, leading to the selection of the diagnosis (or more than three) that allows the holistic approach to be effective and efficient. It would allow us to know the prevalence and incidence of diagnoses and agree on objectives and activities to establish comparison patterns.