title: Developing a prenatal nursing care International Classification for Nursing Practice catalogue.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to develop a prenatal nursing care catalogue of International Classification for Nursing Practice.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  As a programme of the International Council of Nurses, International Classification for Nursing Practice aims to support standardized electronic nursing documentation and facilitate collection of comparable nursing data across settings. This initiative enables the study of relationships among nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and nursing outcomes for best practice, healthcare management decisions, and policy development. The catalogues are usually focused on target populations. Pregnant women are the nursing population addressed in this project.
  
  
  METHODS
  According to the guidelines for catalogue development, three research steps have been adopted: (a) identifying relevant nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes; (b) developing a conceptual framework for the catalogue; (c) expert's validation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This project established a prenatal nursing care catalogue with 228 terms in total, including 69 nursing diagnosis, 92 nursing interventions and 67 nursing outcomes, among them, 57 nursing terms were newly developed. All terms in the catalogue were organized by a framework with two main categories, i.e. Expected Changes of Pregnancy and Pregnancy at Risk. Each category had four domains, representing the physical, psychological, behavioral and environmental perspectives of nursing practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This catalogue can ease the documentation workload among prenatal care nurses, and facilitate storage and retrieval of standardized data for many purposes, such as quality improvement, administration decision-support and researches. The documentations of prenatal care provided data that can be more fluently communicated, compared and evaluated across various healthcare providers and clinic settings.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: International Classification for Nursing Practice Program, International Council of Nurses, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coenen
authors.affiliation: Florida Hospital Clinical Excellence and Research, Orlando, FL, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.affiliation: International Classification for Nursing Practice Program, International Council of Nurses, Milwaukee, WI, USA.|College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Jansen
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007392:International Council of Nurses; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards*; D000072917:Standardized Nursing Terminology; D009626:Terminology as Topic
keywords: ICNP Research; Nursing Informatics; Nursing Record; Nursing Terminology; Nursing Theory; Prenatal Care