Documented Nursing Interventions in Inpatient Psychiatry.
OBJECTIVE
This study explored how well the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) covers adult inpatient psychiatric care.


METHODS
By systematic analyses and a mapping approach, documented nursing interventions were assessed on concurrencies with the NIC.


RESULTS
From 2,153 intervention descriptions in nursing notes, 1,924 were recognizable as NIC interventions, and 229 did not match the NIC. 89.4% of all identified descriptions of interventions were recognizable as NIC interventions on the level of definition.


CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrates that the NIC describes adult inpatient psychiatric care to a large extent. Nevertheless, further development of the classification is important.


CONCLUSIONS
The study results provide a basis for further developing the NIC and to reinforce its use in inpatient psychiatric settings.
Vice Director of the Directorate of Nursing, Therapies and Social Work Psychiatric, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Fritz
F
Frauenfelder
Professor of Quality of Care, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.|Scientific Institute for Quality of Health Care, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.|Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Theo
T
van Achterberg
Director of Pflege PBS (Projects, Consulting, Research), Wil, Switzerland.|Professor in Nursing Diagnostics, Hanze University, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Maria
M
Müller-Staub
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000145:classification*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D000072917:Standardized Nursing Terminology; D055815:Young Adult