The study was aimed at evaluating the impact of educative health actions on nursing appointments with 18 transplanted heart clients, based on Orem's Theory. It was conducted in a Heart Transplant and Insufficiency Unit of a Public Health Institution in Fortaleza - CE. The data were collected by way of nursing appointments. 14 nursing diagnoses were identified in the first appointment and 7 in the last one. It was found out that the clients developed self-care skills with the implementation of educative health actions, turning them into self-care agents, reaching a good level of health and well-being. On the other hand, it raised nurses' awareness of a systematic and efficacious management of the clinical monitoring of their clientele.
nursing appointment (appointment with nurses); heart transplant; health education
