[The meaning of standardized language NANDA-NIC-NOC intensive care nurses in Madrid: a phenomenological approach]

Nursing standardized language is a tool that makes it possible to integrate a theoretical framework of problem identification, interventions and outcomes in care. Its use in the difference care settings is varied. In the case of intensive care units, it is necessary to study the implications that integration of this language would have in nursing area.

To describe the meaning of standardized NANDA-NIC-NOC language for the nurses working in Intensive Care Units in Madrid.

A phenomenological qualitative study was conducted.

ICU in Madrid of nurses with one year or more experience at the time of the study who were working in the ICU.

Purposive and Snowball sampling technique.

Unstructured interviews, personal documents (letters, diaries). Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim for later analysis.

Giorgi proposal. Identifying meaning units, groups of common senses and themes.

Three themes made up the meaning of standardized language in intensive care nursing. "Living integrating 2 sides of the same coin", "living a conceptual imposition", and "living a development opportunity and professional autonomy".

There is a gap in the theory of language and its clinical application. Nurses report feeling imposition of a specific conceptual language. This creates the construction of a hierarchy between nurses based on the use of NANDA-NIC-NOC. Even so, the standardized language is experienced as a professional development opportunity.