Nursing Care in the Face of Postoperative Management of Fractures Bone.

Abstract

Objective: To describe the nursing care in patients postoperated by bone fractures in the humerus, tibia and fibula, in order to optimize the care of the patient during hospitalization in the San Bartolo Specialties Hospital.

Methodology: The research is framed in a quantitative approach, with a descriptive level, of non experimental type, as a bibliographical study, of field. The data collection technique used was the survey, through a questionnaire of 15 closed questions, which was applied to a population of 24 nurses.

Results: Among the most outstanding results, it is unfavorably shown that 100% of respondents omit care, as is the control of fluids to patients, together with 75% who do not identify the warning signs, however, 75% of the population considered that the administration of medications is the main care in the postoperative period.

Conclusions: Bone fractures represent a problem of functional disability in patients and it is necessary that nursing care is aimed at satisfying the patient’s requirements without affecting the intentional immobility that is established as an operative therapeutic measure