This range of information is indispensable for the good result of the treatment, thus allowing a cure for cataracts. These guidelines will give subsidy to patients and responsible care activities continued, enabling greater security in their recovery, and provide greater autonomy and demystifying myths and taboos about post-surgery.
Professional nursing as health-promoting agent must also seek the reduction of the numbers of case of blind people caused by cataract. The actions of nursing must initialize in the basic attention by identifying cases, prevention of disease and the prior routing for curative surgery, preventing the growth of the problem. In Brazil, the Health Ministry implemented the projects of joint effort of cataract for which provided a “extra