APPLICATION OF THE NURSING PROCESS TO AN ELDERLY HOME-BASED PATIENT IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: AN EXPERIENCE REPORT

Abstract

Home Care within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) is a strategy that ensures comprehensive care for bedridden individuals, and the Systematization of Nursing Care (SAE) emerges as a central tool to organize and qualify care, being operationalized through the Nursing Process (NP), which enables the planning of targeted interventions; the objective of this study is to report the experience of nursing undergraduate students during their curricular internship in Primary Health Care regarding the application of the Nursing Process to a home-dwelling elderly patient residing in the micro-area of the Radional II Family Health Strategy in the city of Belém, Pará; this is a descriptive and qualitative study in the form of an experience report conducted in December 2025; for the organization of nursing care, the Nursing Process was applied in five stages, in accordance with COFEN Resolutions No. 358/2009 and No. 736/2024; the definition and organization of nursing diagnoses followed the NANDA International Taxonomy II, 13th edition (2024–2026); nursing interventions and outcome classifications were based on the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), respectively; the main nursing problems identified included impaired bed mobility, pressure injury, difficulty with bowel elimination, feeding via nasogastric tube, impaired verbal communication, and risk of infection; this strategy enabled comprehensive case evaluation and the implementation of individualized care; it is concluded that the application of the Nursing Process provides several advantages, including improvement in quality of care, increased patient safety, promotion of effective communication among healthcare professionals, patients and families, optimization of time and resources, prevention of complications, and assurance of patient-centered care.