Abstract
This is a descriptive study which adopts a qualitative approach. It seeks to identify the profile of patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) in a university hospital, and describes how nurses make use of nursing guidelines for the hospital discharge of these patients, and how they develop a specific nursing care plan for a patient with HF. The study scenario will be the Men and Women Medical Clinic Sectors of a federal public hospital in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The study will have as its subjects, patients with HF hospitalized in these clinics and the nurses who provide care for them. This research will meet the requirements of Resolution 196/96 of the CNS and Ethics Committee (CEP) of the Institution.
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