Nursing classification systems

• Nursing Care Elements
  • Nursing Diagnosis
  • Nursing Intervention
  • Nursing Outcome
  • Intensity of Nursing Care
• Pt Demographic Elements [Top]
  • Personal identification
  • Date of Birth
  • Sex
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Residence
• Service Elements
  • Unique facility or agency number elements
  • Unique pt health record number
  • Unique number of principle RN
  • Episode encounter date
  • Discharge or termination date
  • Disposition of pt
  • Expected payer for this bill [Top]

NANDA

NANDA (diagnoses from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association). While ICD-9-CM codes describe a disease or injury, NANDA nursing diagnoses describe a patient's reactions to the disease and to treatment. [Top]

NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification) is a standardized language for treatments that nurses perform. NIC was developed at the University of Iowa and information is published by Mosby, There is a section of that University's Nursing Web site devoted to NIC and NOC.

NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification). Also developed at the University of Iowa. It goes beyond the work of NIC toward classification of outcomes useful in clinical nursing. [Top]

The Omaha System of nursing classifications was developed by the Omaha Visiting Nurse Association. It covers some of the same ground as the NANDA nursing diagnoses, and incorporates the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS). [Top]

The National Library of Medicine UMLS Metathesaurus includes terms from NANDA, NIC, NOC, HHCC, and others. [Top]

Nursing classification systems contain material from other systems and provide content / terminology for others. There are nursing terms in the Read codes and a variety of classifications: nursing diagnoses from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, interventions from Nursing Intervention Classification and the Omaha System, and many others. A listing of nursing working groups [Top]