Combined application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and the NANDA-International Taxonomy II.
OBJECTIVE
This paper presents a discussion of the conceptual and practical relationships between the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and the NANDA-International Taxonomy II for nursing diagnoses, and their use in nursing practice.


BACKGROUND
The ICF provides a common classification framework for all healthcare professionals, including nurses. Nursing care plans can be broadly based on NANDA-I taxonomies. No published attempt has been made to systematically compare the NANDA-I Taxonomy II to the ICF.


METHODS
The most recently published descriptions of both classifications and a case example presenting the combined use of both classifications. The work was carried out in 2009.


CONCLUSIONS
There are conceptual commonalities and differences between the ICF and the NANDA-I Taxonomy II. In the case example, the overlap between the ICF categories and NANDA-I nursing diagnoses reflects the fact that the ICF, focusing on functioning and disability, and the NANDA-I Taxonomy II, with its functioning health patterns, are similar in their approaches.


CONCLUSIONS
The NANDA-I Taxonomy II permits the fulfilment of requirements that are exclusively nursing issues. The application of the ICF is useful for nurses to communicate nursing issues with other healthcare professionals in a common language. For nurses, knowledge shared with other healthcare professionals may contribute to broader understanding of a patient's situation.


CONCLUSIONS
The ICF and the NANDA-I Taxonomy II should be used in concert by nurses and can complement each other to enhance the quality of clinical team work and nursing practice.
Boldt
Christine
C
Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF), Nottwil, Switzerland.
Grill
Eva
E
Bartholomeyczik
Sabine
S
Brach
Mirjam
M
Rauch
Alexandra
A
Eriks-Hoogland
Inge
I
Stucki
Gerold
G
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000145:classification*; D009737:Nursing Records; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D012307:Risk Factors; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae