Bank of terms of the nursing special language in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a teaching hospital - descriptive study

Abstract

<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Background:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> The lack of standardization in the nursing special language has been identified as one of the main problems to overcome so that the profession can be recognized as a science.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> The emphasis on addressing these concerns led to the development of nursing terminologies that often do not reflect the local nursing practices, and this fact motivated the identification of professional nursing terms in a teaching hospital. </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Objective:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> To build, based on the ICNP®Seven Axes Model, a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">bank of terms <span>of the </span>nursing special language</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a teaching hospital, by using the terms found in the nursing records of this unit. </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Methodology:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Descriptive research developed with the goal of contributing to the systematization of nursing care at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a teaching hospital. The steps followed in this research were: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">identification and evaluation of specialized documents; cross mapping of the identified terms with the ICNP® Version 1.0 terms; establishment of databases domain trees; development of definitions for terms not included in ICNP®, validation of the terms and definitions included in the database. </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Results:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> The results show that the 596 terms and definitions validated will enable the building of a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">bank of terms <span>of the </span>nursing special language</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, containing 226 terms that are </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">included<span> and 374 terms that are not </span>included<span> in ICNP® </span>Version 1.0<span>. </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Conclusion: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">It is expected that this database will become a source for the development of ICNP® Catalogues, including sets of diagnostic statements, nursing results and interventions, which can be used to implement the systematization of nursing care in the unit in question.</span>

Keywords

• Nursing, Terminology, Language, Neonatology, Intensive Care.