Main description:

This research-based clinical tool standardizes and defines the knowledge base for nursing curricula and practice, communicates the nature of nursing, and facilitates the appropriate selection of nursing interventions for nurses, including practicing nurses, nursing students, nursing administrators, and faculty.

Contents:

Front Matter

Preface

Strengths of NIC

Acknowledgements

Recognition List

Fellows

Organizations

Definitions of Terms

How to find an intervention

PART ONE

Overview and Use of the Classification

Chapter One: Understanding NIC

Chapter Two: Use of NIC in Practice, Education, and Research

PART TWO

Taxonomy of Nursing Interventions

PART THREE

The Classification

PART FOUR

Core Interventions for Nursing Specialty Areas

PART FIVE

Estimated Time and Education Level Necessary to Perform NIC Interventions

PART SIX

NIC Interventions Linked to NANDA-I Diagnoses

PART Seven

Appendixes

Appendix A: Interventions: New, Revised and Retired Since the Fifth Edition

Appendix B: Guidelines for Submission of a New or Revised Intervention

Appendix C: Timeline and Highlights for NIC

Appendix D: Abbreviations

Appendix E: Previous editions and translations