Introduction:

The Cuban health system insists on the need of training professionals on modalities on Natural and Traditional Medicine. Their integration increases the diagnostic nd therapeutic resources in the promotion, prevention and rehabilitation of individuals,familiesand communities. Natural and Traditional Medicine is promoted by the World Health Organization, and is included in the Classification of Nursing Interventions. The term “nursing intervention” is assumed to integrate these modalities into the rehabilitation of persons operated on for congenital heart diseases.

Objective:

To design the integration of the Natural and Traditional Medicine into nursing interventions for the rehabilitation of persons operated on for congenital heart diseases.

Materials and methods:

Descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out in the Pediatric Heart center William Soler, of Havana, in the period 2016-2018. The universe was made up by 100 male and female nurses, 60 of whom were selected through simple randomly sampling. An instrument was, designed that was validated by expert criteria. The information was processed with absolute frequencies and percentages.

Results:

The expert criteria determined the proposal’s viability, its consolidation to develop holistic, natural and comprehensive care, and the design of the integration of Natural and Traditional Medicine into nursing interventions for the rehabilitation of persons operated on for congenital heart diseases. Likewise, complement protocols used in the Rehabilitation Department of the Pediatric Heart center William Soler, in addition to professional upgrading.

Conclusions:

Diagnoses and interventions recognized by the Classification of Nursing Interventions were selected, applicable to solve problems detected in the rehabilitation of persons operated on for congenital heart diseases, which contributed to the nursing practice as a theoretical scientific contribution.

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