ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effect of constitution nursing care by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory on urinary salt scaling in patients with ureteral stents.Methods Thirty patients with ureteral stents after ureteroscopy were recruited in the study.The TCM constitution Scale was used to perform the TCM constitution categorization.Then constitution nursing by TCM theory was done based on the symptoms and diagnosis.The urinary salt scaling in the patients was explored. Result In the 30 patients,the incidence of urinary salt scaling were 26.7% (8/30)and no urinary tract infection occurred. Conclusion The nursing by TCM theory can relieve the clinical symptoms by indwelling ureteral stents and reduce the incidence of urinary salt scaling.