IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF NURSING INTERVENTIONS CLASSIFICATIONAND NURSING OUTCOMES CLASSIFICATION IN A PATIENT EDUCATION PLAN

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classi fication (NOC) are recognized examples of standardized nursing languag es used to describe the contribution nursing makes to patient care. Co lumbus Regional Hospital nursing leadership recognized the need to use standardized nursing interventions and nursing-sensitive patient outc omes to describe the unique contribution nursing makes to patient educ ation. In collaboration with the University of Iowa, NIC/NOC languages were implemented in the development of a patient education plan for a clinical pathway population.