[Nursing care in treatment compliance. Following the therapeutic plan correctly. A nursing job].
Noncompliance with therapeutic plans creates serious health problems which can cause important economic repercussions. Due to the quantity of factors which may have an influence on noncompliance, the methods used to evaluate this are complex and they present numerous inconveniences. Moreover, a patient can comply adequately with some indications but not with others; therefore, it is not possible to have an adequate set of protocols to measure this in a simple way which can be incorporated into the routine nursing duties. Our objective in this project is to propose nursing procedures which will improve therapeutic compliance. The methodology used consists in the application of the Nurses' Care Process to carry out actions at three levels: a) information and Health Education, a) support, supervision and prevention, c) care. We conclude with a statement as to the need to implicate all health professionals in general and specifically nursing professional in order to achieve an improved compliance by patients to prescribed treatment.