Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem (Dec 2003)

MAPPING OF TERMS ATTRIBUTED TO NURSING PHENOMENA IN THE WRITTEN DATA OF THE NURSING STAFF COMPONENTS

  • Patrícia Josefa Fernandes Beserra,
  • Greicy Kelly Gouveia Dias,
  • Wilma Cristina de Assis Nóbrega Nunes,
  • Jaqueline Ferreira Araruna,
  • Telma Ribeiro Garcia,
  • Maria Miriam Lima da Nóbrega

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 33 – 44

Abstract

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work aimed to identify the terms used by components of the nursing staff of the of the schoolhospital, in written patient clinical records, to designate phenomena of nursing; and to compare the terms identifiedwith those included in the Classification of Nursing Phenomena of the ICNP - Beta version. As the population ofstudy, it was considered all clinical records of the patients admitted in this service during the period of August/2001to January/2002; 167 clinical records that contained written data of components of the nursing staff constituted thesample. In the process, it was identification of 586 nursing phenomena. After the cross-mapping phase, it wasidentified 340 terms already included in the Classification of Nursing Phenomena of the ICNP - Beta version; and246 new possible terms to be included in the future.

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