Nursing Interventions Classification

The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) is a care classification system which describes the activities that nurses perform as a part of the planning phase of the nursing process associate with the creation of a nursing care plan. The NIC consists of a standardized list which contains 433 different interventions. Each intervention is defined and the definition describes a set of activities a nurse performs in order to perform one of the interventions. Each of the 433 interventions is coded into a three-level taxonomic structure consisting of 27 classes and 6 domains. The taxonomic structure allows for easy selection of an intervention and to classify them by means of a computer. The NIC also allows for the implementation of a Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS). The terminology is an American Nurses' Association-recognized terminology, is included in the UMLS, and is HL7 registered.^[1][2][3][4]

See also

Nursing portal

• Clinical Care Classification System
• Nursing Outcomes Classification
• NANDA
• Nursing care plan
• Nursing diagnosis
• Nursing process
• Nursing care
• Omaha System

References

1. ^ Iowa Intervention Project (1996). Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) (2nd ed.), St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book
2. ^ Henry SB, Warren JJ, Lange L, Button P., A review of major nursing vocabularies and the extent to which they have the characteristics required for implementation in computer-based systems, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998 Jul-Aug;5(4):321-8
3. ^ Henry SB, Mead CN., Nursing classification systems: necessary but not sufficient for representing "what nurses do" for inclusion in computer-based patient record systems, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1997 May-Jun;4(3):222-32
4. ^ Nursing Interventions Classification

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