title: Intervention, intervene, interfere ... what are we doing?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A concept analysis of the meaning and attributes of the term intervention.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To define the essence of the term intervention and the role of nurses in nurse-facilitated interventions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review of journals, texts, and popular periodicals from 1983 to the present via CINAHL and Medline.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A more accurate specification of the meaning and relevant attributes of the term intervention as it relates to nursing may lead to more effective clinical applications, as well as a more realistic definition of the term intervention and how it applies to the role.
authors.affiliation: State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA. KFRAME@Camden.Rutgers.edu
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frame
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D026706:Paternalism; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010358:Patient Participation; D012660:Semantics