This is a methodological study of innovative technology developed which aims to build up nursing care protocol to the patient in the pre and postoperative bariatric surgery. The proposed model of care was based on the General Theory Orem Self-Care and organized from the requirements of self-care (universal, developmental and health deviation). Within each requirement, it is presented nursing diagnoses, expected outcomes and nursing interventions that were identified in a survey conducted with 31 clients suffering from morbid obesity, assisted by the Gastroenterology Outpatient Clinic of a university hospital in the period from April to June 2009. The development of the protocol is considered an important resource both to organize the guidelines provided by nurses to the bariatric patient, aiming their self-care, and to provide subsidies to systematize nursing care to be provided
Nursing; Self care; Bariatric surgery; Nursing Protocols
