title: Introducing ICN's International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP): a unifying framework.
abstract: Seven years ago, ICN had a vision: To establish a common language about nursing practice to describe nursing care that could be compared across borders, populations, settings and time. Today part of this vision has become a reality: the Alpha Version and a database for an International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), described on the following pages, for which ICN is eliciting feedback, critique and recommendations from nurses in all settings everywhere. Below, a historical review.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007392:International Council of Nurses; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000145:classification*