Introduction:

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of autoimmune etiology and is one of the main causes of non-traumatic neurological disability in young adults.

Objective:

to identify the main nursing diagnoses, results and interventions and to validate a proposal for a care plan for patients with multiple sclerosis.

Methods:

a methodological study, carried out with 16 specialist nurses and 68 patients in a Neurology unit of a School Hospital, following four stages: elaboration of Nursing Diagnoses Initial proposal of results and nursing interventions; Preparation of a care plan; Validation of the plan by specialists. Kappa coefficient scale was used to analyze the agreement.

Results:

four diagnoses were identified with frequency above 50 %, four nursing outcomes were listed and 14 interventions were proposed that reached a concordance index ≥ 0.8 among the experts.

Conclusion:

the study allowed to identify nursing diagnoses, results and interventions for application in clinical practice, in addition to validating the proposal of the care plan for patients with Multiple Sclerosis.

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