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Mapping nursing goals of an intensive care unit to the Nursing Outcomes Classification
Tânia Couto Machado Chianca1, Patrícia de Oliveira Salgado, Juliana Peixoto Albuquerque
1Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. taniachianca@gmail.com
Aim:
to analyze whether nursing goals formulated for nursing diagnoses can be mapped to nursing outcomes classification and to identify the scales most appropriate to the outcomes mapped.
Method:
a descriptive study was developed in an intensive care unit. Data collection involved extraction of goals in 44 medical records, content standardization, cross-mapping to the outcomes, identification of appropriated scales and validation. Descriptive analysis and agreement with the cross-mapping process were performed.
Results:
nursing goals (59) were mapped to (28) different outcomes, with agreement of 83% in the mapping process. All goals were mapped to outcomes, which allows to affirm that these outcomes contemplates the goals elaborated to patient care.
Conclusion:
these results favor the inclusion of outcomes and scales validated in the planning and evaluation phases of the nursing process of a software in construction.
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