Nursing Interventions Classification
The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) is a care classification system which describes the activities that nurses perform as a part of the planning phase of the nursing process associate with the creation of a nursing care plan. The NIC consists of a standardized list which contains 433 different interventions. Each intervention is defined and the definition describes a set of activities a nurse performs in order to perform one of the interventions. Each of the 433 interventions is coded into a three-level taxonomic structure consisting of 27 classes and 6 domains. The taxonomic structure allows for easy selection of an intervention and to classify them by means of a computer. The NIC also allows for the implementation of a Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS). The terminology is an American Nurses' Association-recognized terminology, is included in the UMLS, and is HL7 registered.[1][2][3][4]
See also
- Clinical Care Classification System
- Nursing Outcomes Classification
- NANDA
- Nursing care plan
- Nursing diagnosis
- Nursing process
- Nursing care
- Omaha System
References
- ^ Iowa Intervention Project (1996). Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) (2nd ed.), St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book
- ^ Henry SB, Warren JJ, Lange L, Button P., A review of major nursing vocabularies and the extent to which they have the characteristics required for implementation in computer-based systems, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998 Jul-Aug;5(4):321-8
- ^ Henry SB, Mead CN., Nursing classification systems: necessary but not sufficient for representing "what nurses do" for inclusion in computer-based patient record systems, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1997 May-Jun;4(3):222-32
- ^ Nursing Interventions Classification
 | This nursing-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
