Abstract
Introduction: Current nursing care is based mainly on active identification of nursing problems. Licensed nurses seek independently for patient nursing problems and systematically satisfy his/her disturbed needs.
Goal: The goal of our work was to identify nursing problems in patients during stress tests as a part of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. Methods: We used our own questionnaire; every question assessed satisfaction of one of the biological, mental, social and spiritual needs.
We also asked about the most serious problem and the overall feeling of the test. We evaluated questionnaires from 163 patients, 80 female and 83 male, most of them were above 60.
Data were processed using Microsoft Excel. Results: We recorded 365 nursing problems; there was lack of drinking in 83 (50,9 %), fears in 65 (39,9 %), dyspnea in 64 (39,3 %), pain in 55 (33,7 %), body position in 34 (20,9 %), and room temperature in 27 (16,6 %) patients.
Others were less frequent. The most serious problem was specified by 137 patients.
There was dyspnea in 48 (35,0 %), fears in 42 (30,7 %), lack of drinking in 17 (12,4 %), pain in 10 (7,3 %) and room temperature in 8 (5,8 %) patients. Others were less frequent.
The overall feeling of the stress test was assessed as positive in 150 (92,0 %) and neutral in 13 (8,0 %) patients. Conclusion: Our results could contribute to the knowledge of nuclear medicine nurses and to improve nursing care.