Crossmapping of nursing problem and action statements in telephone nursing consultation documentations with international classification for nursing practice

Abstract

Objectives: This study is to cross-map telephone nursing consultation documentations with International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP, ver. 1.0 concepts). Methods: The narrative telephone nursing consultation documentations of 170 ophthalmology nursing unit patients were analyzed. The nursing statements were examined and cross-mapped with the Korean version of the ICNP ver. 1.0. If all the concepts of a statement were mapped to ICNP concepts, it was classified as 'completely mapped'. If any concept of a statement wasnot mapped, it was classified as 'partially mapped'. If none of the concepts were mapped, it was classified as 'not mapped'. Results: A total of 738 statements wereused for documenting telephone nursing consultations. These statements were divided into 3 groups according to their content: 294 nursing phenomena-related statements (72 unique statements), 440 nursing actions-related statements (76 unique statements), and 4 other statements (2 unique statements). In total, 189 unique nursing concepts extracted from 150 unique statements and 108 concepts (62.44%) were mapped onto ICNP concepts. Conclusions: This study demonstrated the feasibility of computerizing narrative nursing documentations for electronic telephone triagein the ophthalmology nursing unit. © 2010 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics.