title: Nursing Diagnoses in Inpatient Psychiatry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study explored how well NANDA-I covers the reality of adult inpatient psychiatric nursing care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patient observations documented by registered nurses in records were analyzed using content analysis and mapped with the classification NANDA-I.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 1,818 notes were examined and contained 46 different patient responses. Twenty-nine patient responses were recognizable as NANDA-I diagnoses at the level of definitions, 15 as diagnoses-related factors, and 12 did not match with any NANDA-I diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study demonstrates that NANDA-I describes the adult inpatient psychiatric nursing care to a large extent. Nevertheless, further development of the classification is important.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study will spur nursing research and further classification development.
authors.affiliation: Directorate of Nursing, Therapies and Social Work Psychiatric, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Fritz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Frauenfelder
authors.affiliation: KU Leuven-Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Leuven, Belgium.|Scientific Institute for Quality of Health Care, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Theo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Achterberg
authors.affiliation: Nursing Research, Center of Education & Research (COEUR), Wil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Needham
authors.affiliation: Pflege PBS (Projects, Consulting, Research), Wil, Switzerland.|Lectorat Nursing Diagnostics, Hanze University Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-6160
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Müller Staub
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis
keywords: Inpatient psychiatry; NANDA-I classification; nursing documentation