Integrating Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes in Public Health Nursing Practice

Abstract

TOPIC: Applying standardized nursing language in public health nursing practice. PURPOSE: To develop a charting format to document public health nursing practice based on standardized nursing language. SOURCES: Literature review of documentation systems for public health nursing practice. CONCLUSIONS: A task force of public health nurses developed a charting format based on Taxonomy I of Nursing Diagnosis (NANDA), Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).