Nursing Care for Puerperal Women with Anemia: Case Report

Abstract

Objective: To develop a nursing care plan proposal focusing on anemia in a puerperal woman. Method: Case report of a 24-year-old puerperal woman, eutocic delivery at 39 weeks with a postpartum serum hemoglobin value of 7.9 g/dL. Dorothea Orem’s Theoretical Model of Self-Care Deficit and the taxonomy of the International Classification for Nursing Practice were used. Results: Nine nursing diagnoses were identified: Activity intolerance; Risk of falling; Abnormal resting pattern; Compromised family process; Anxiety; Pain; Risk of infection; Compromised breastfeeding; Low knowledge about self-care and care for the newborn after discharge. Conclusion: The development of this case study favored the identification of the care needs of the puerperal woman, and is the starting point for the development of nursing interventions, providing support for the provision of quality and individual care, making it possible to respond to the identified needs and to the particularities of puerperal women with anemia.