title: Mapping nursing interventions from a hospital information system to the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Using the Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) as a standard to classify interventions identified in a hospital intervention system.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature and the authors experience with standardized data systems for nursing.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the processes used and the issues that arose as interventions from a hospital nursing information system were mapped to interventions in the NIC.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The NIC provided a standard for the classification of nursing interventions from a hospital information system resulting in data that could be compared across sites. Ongoing testing of nursing intervention classifications is recommended.
authors.affiliation: Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coenen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sutton
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled