Introduction

Gestation is a process characterized by intense physiological transformations, which sometimes result in complications. Among the most frequent, gestational hypertensive disorder is the primary cause of maternal mortality in Brazil. This study sought to analyze nursing care of pregnant women with hypertensive syndrome in a low-risk obstetric hospital.

Materials and Methods

This was a descriptive, exploratory field research, with qualitative approach, where an interview was conducted with nine nurses from a municipal maternity hospital in Bahia, Brazil. The results obtained were organized through the content analysis technique proposed by Bardin.

Results

The results were consolidated into three categories, namely: the nurse’s approach to women with hypertensive gravidarum disorder; factors that hinder adequate care; essential nursing procedures to preserve the lives of the mother-child binomial.

Discussion

It was verified that nursing procedures are essential to preserve and maintain life in the face of gestational hypertensive disorder; however, factors persist that interfere with the quality of care, like lack of fetal evaluation, quality prenatal care, humanization, and poor knowledge related to the operation of equipment, and even the disease itself.

Conclusions

The study permitted analyzing that nursing care of expectant women with hypertensive disorder is essential in the preservation and maintenance of the woman’s life and that of the fetus/neonate, given that these professionals are differentiated by their autonomy and critical sense, besides their technical and scientific knowledge, which when added to a multi-professional team makes the work dynamic and solution oriented.

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