Nursing Outcomes Classification

The Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) is a classification system which describes patient outcomes sensitive to nursing intervention. The NOC is a system to evaluate the effects of nursing care as a part of the nursing process. The NOC contains 330 outcomes, and each with a label, a definition, and a set of indicators and measures to determine achievement of the nursing outcome and are included The terminology is an American Nurses' Association-recognized terminology, is included in the UMLS, and is HL7 registered.<ref>Donahue, M.P. & Brighton, V., Nursing outcome classification: Development and implementation, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 1998, 12(5)</ref><ref>S. Moorhead, M. Johnson, M. Maas, E. Swanson, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), Elsevier, Fourth Edition, 936 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-323-05408-0</ref>

With the development of advanced nursing practice and the need to demonstrate effectiveness in patient care, academics and advanced practitioners have started researching and identifying nursing-sensitive outcome.<ref>Doran, Diane M.,

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 Full text,</ref><ref>Ingersoll, Gail L., 
 Nurse-sensitive outcomes of advanced practice, 
 Journal of Advanced Nursing, 
 
 Vol. 32(Issue: 5),
 pp. 1272–1281,
 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01598.x,
 
 
 
 Full text,</ref> These are defined as defined as an individual’s, family or community state, behaviour or perception that is measured along a continuum in response to nursing intervention.<ref>

Elsevier: Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), 5th Edition: Moorhead, Johnson, Maas & Swanson(link). elsevier.ca.

Accessed 2017-11-13.

</ref> Nursing sensitive outcomes have been identifying in rheumatology nursing,<ref>Minnock, Patricia,

 Nursing sensitive outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic literature review, 
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 Identifying paediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in linked administrative health data, 
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 PMC: 3467158,</ref>  and in intensive care.<ref>Krapohl, Greta, 
 Nursing specialty certification and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes in the intensive care unit, 
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 Association between nurse-physician collaboration and patient outcomes in three intensive care units, 
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See also

• Clinical Care Classification System
• Diagnosis-related group
• NANDA
• Nursing care plan
• Nursing diagnosis
• Nursing Interventions Classification
• Nursing process
• Omaha System

External links

• Nursing Outcomes Classification (U. Iowa)

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