title: Evaluating the Beta version of the International Classification for Nursing Practice for domain completeness, applicability of its axial structure and utility in clinical practice: a Norwegian project.
abstract: The purpose of this Norwegian project was to evaluate the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) Beta version for domain completeness, applicability of its axial structure and utility in clinical practice. A subset of terms addressing the areas of circulation and elimination were abstracted from the nursing records of a cardiac intensive care unit and a nursing home. Abstracted terms were mapped to terms in the ICNP. In the ICNP, the same or similar terms were found for 47% of the documented circulation terms and 69% of the documented elimination terms that addressed nursing phenomena. For nursing interventions, 27% of the documented circulation terms and 35% of the documented elimination terms mapped to the ICNP. The research team encountered difficulty in coding terms with the ICNP that expressed patients' perspectives, preferences, behaviours and experiences, and terms that represented signs-and-symptoms. Recommendations for further development of the ICNP include improvement in granularity, precision and conceptual definitions of terms; inclusion of time-related terms for representing nursing phenomena; and an easier method for navigating around the ICNP.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nursing Science, University of Oslo, Norway. Cornelia.M.Ruland@Dartmouth.EDU
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ruland
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007392:International Council of Nurses; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009664:Norway; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009737:Nursing Records; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled