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Haddad syndrome is a combination of congenital central hypoventilation and Hirschsprung’s disease. This disease is very rare and caus-es mainly sleep apnoea and problems with intestinal peristalsis. Haddad syndrome is characterised by hereditary disorders of the auto-nomic nervous system and the lack of nerve ganglia in the distal part of the large intestine. The purpose of the above work is to illustrate the role of the nurse in caring for a child with Haddad syndrome and to present diagnoses and interventions based on the ICNP terminology, which the staff should include in the treatment process. In this work the method of literature analysis as well as the individual case was used. It was also based on interview, observation, and interpretation of the patient’s medical records. The study was conducted in September 2018 during a home visit as part of nursing care for a mechanically ventilated patient. The patient was diagnosed. Eight nursing diagnoses were formulated. These included: apnoea, impaired airway patency, abdominal pain, weakness, underweight, disturbed sleep, lack of appetite, and fatigue. The International Classification of Nursing Practice ICNP® is a huge source of terms that facilitate, speedup, and make the nurse’s work more effective. It enables the documenting and describing of specific diagnoses, interventions, and results selected and applied to them [6]. The use of an appropriate diet and pharmacotherapy proved to be effective, which improved the patient’s condition and allowed her to return to normal functioning.

Many obese patients are unable to reduce body weight despite the attempts made, so often the only remaining solution is to undergo bariatric surgery. Thanks to technological advancements in recent years weight-loss procedures have developed greatly and now offer opportunities to patients struggling with obesity, allowing long-term life quality improvement. The aim of this study was to define nursing problems and to develop a nursing care plan for patients after gastric sleeve surgery in the surgery department. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wstęp. Rak płuca stanowi w Polsce pierwszą przyczynę zgonów z powodu nowotworów. Najistotniejszymi czynnikami wpływającymi na ryzyko wystąpienia raka płuca są: palenie tytoniu (czynne i bierne), ekspozycja na pierwiastki rakotwórcze, czynniki genetyczne, choroby płuc (zwłóknienie płuc, przewlekła obturacyjna choroba płuc, krzemica) oraz nieodpowiednia dieta (mała ilość spożywanych warzyw i owoców). Cel. Celem niniejszej pracy jest przedstawienie zadań pielęgniarki w opiece nad seniorem w terminalnej fazie raka gruczołowego płuc Prezentacja przypadku. Pacjentka lat 74 w 5-tej dobie hospitalizacji przyjęta w oddział z rozpoznaniem raka gruczołowego płuc, powodu znacznych dolegliwości bólowych, postępującej kacheksji, zaparć oraz problemów z oddychaniem. Wnioski. W terminalnej fazie raka gruczołowego płuc dominującymi problemami pielęgnacyjnymi seniora są: ból, duszność, zaparcia spowodowane leczeniem opioidami, niedożywienie wynikające z postępu choroby nowotworowej, zmiany w obrębie jamy ustnej. Rolą pielęgniarki w opiece nad seniorem w terminalnej fazie raka gruczołowego płuc jest przede wszystkim udział w łagodzeniu wszystkich dolegliwości wynikających z postępu choroby.

Introduction. The most important application of information technology in nursing is generating and maintaining patient's electronic records. Implementing ICNP® to this can guarantee the continuity and high quality of evidence-based care. Aim. Obtaining information on nurses' opinions on the implementation of ICNP® in clinical practice. Material and methods. The study was conducted in late 2018 and early 2019 in a group of 104 nurses of the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk. It involved conducting a diagnostic survey. Results. Prior to the survey, 77.9% of the respondents were aware of ICNP®. The respondents who did not provide the correct answer to question about the essence of the ICNP® were mostly over 45 years of age. When it comes to 25% of subjects, they declared they were willing to use ICNP®. The vast majority considered it more convenient to maintain care records in the traditional way than with the use of ICNP®. The respondents with a master's degree showed a higher level of acceptance for the implementation of the ICNP® to clinical practice than respondents with secondary and tertiary education. Conclusions. The nursing staff over 45 years old presented a lower level of knowledge related to the ICNP® as compared to other respondents. The reasons behind the conviction that applying ICNP® would be difficult included understaffing and lack of mobile devices such as tablets or laptops in hospital wards. It is, therefore, necessary to launch a nursing terminology training programme, equip branches with the necessary devices and comply with minimum employment standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim. Identifying the scope of implementation of the ICNP® dictionary in the process of educating nursing students at the universities of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Material and methods. The research was carried out at the turn of 2018 and 2019 among 110 first- and second-cycle students of nursing at three Pomeranian universities. The diagnostic survey method and the survey technique were used. The tool was an original on-line questionnaire. The statistical analysis used IBM SPSS 23 statistical package; p ≤ 0.05 was adopted as the materiality level. Results. During the first-cycle studies, the students the most often used the ICNP® Classification (n=103; 93.6%). More than a half of them also used the classification of NANDA (n=58; 52.7%). ICNP® is the most often used on the basics of nursing (n=105; 95.5%). Regarding the second-cycle studies, students mainly applied the ICNP® (n=49; 44.5%) and NANDA (n=23; 20.9%) classifications, however, 13.6% (n=15) of the respondents did not use any nursing dictionary during the classes. Students also used ICNP® reference terminology in self-study papers (n=52; 47.3%) and diploma theses (n=20; 18.2%). Conclusions. The most frequently used classification in the first- and second-cycle studies at the universities of the Pomeranian Voivodeship is the ICNP® dictionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Oncology nursing as a specialized field ought to develop a range of standards that will increase the quality of patient care. The indispensable ability of a nurse is to create patient-specific diagnoses that holistically describe the biopsychosocial status of the care focus. Aim. The proposal to use the ICNP® classification in the process of nursing a patient with malignant breast cancer during chemotherapy. Material and methods. The case study method was used in the paper. The research techniques used in the work include an interview, nursing observation, measurement, documentation analysis. The tools include a sheet for collecting patient data, the Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS), Nutritional Risk Score questionnaire (NRS), scale of judgement of the occurrence of chemotherapy side effects, dyspnoea assessment, nausea assessment, fall rating as well as the Scale of nausea and vomiting judgement according to WHO criteria. Results. After the interview, the biopsychosocial status of the patient was assessed. Using the obtained empirical data, nursing diagnoses were made using the ICNP® reference terminology. The focus of care, nursing interventions, means / tools and the result of care were listed using phrases from the existing ICNP® catalogs. Conclusions. Using the International Classification of Nurses' Diagnosis ICNP® in the context of caring for a patient diagnosed with breast cancer allows to identify nursing problems such as: lymph edema, diarrhea, anxiety, exercise dyspnea, vomiting, concern about body image, risk of falling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a systemic disorder that is characterised by necrotising vasculitis of small arteries and veins. The aim of the study was to formulate a nursing care plan for a patient with GPA using the ICNP® terminology. The research was conducted at the Clinic of Internal Medicine, Connective Tissue Diseases, and Geriatrics in Gdańsk and involved a 25-year-old female patient. The research employed the case study method. The patient was diagnosed with: vomiting, pain, nosebleed, dyspnoea, impaired oral mucosa, dizziness, lack of appetite, disturbed fluid intake, peripheral oedema, nausea, side impaired hearing ability, risk of infection, risk of reproductive dysfunction, dry skin, anxiety, and disturbed sleep. The nursing interventions included monitoring of vital signs and the side effects of the medications used, and the participation in the diagnostic and therapeutic process, providing emotional support and health education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amputation surgery is a last resort, carried out when the vascular reconstruction is inappropriate or impossible to perform. We present a case of a 70-year-old woman who suffered from left lower limb ischemia. The patient was admitted to hospital in a serious condition with strong leg pain. At first the woman underwent thrombectomia. However, the leg amputation was necessary. In the postoperative period the patient manifested the depression symptoms, the complications of the healing of the wound and the metabolic disorders. Thanks to the implementation of good practice in the healing, the proper wound care and the comprehensive care of the patient, the condition of the patient gradually improved. After twenty days of hospitalization the patient was discharged home in good general status. The paper presents a model of the nursing process of patient, based on the International Classification for Nursing Practice ICNP®. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The apparent speed and impact of creating a global digital landscape for health and social care tells us that the health workforce is playing catch-up with eHealth national programmes. Locating how and where the profession of nursing fits with future models of health service delivery is critical to provide focused engagement for the populations they serve. In 2016, Dublin City University (DCU) School of Nursing and Human Sciences (SNHS) created a research and development centre for International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) in Ireland. This paper provides a summary of the first year of the centre's research, describing how the initial activities link to the development of global eHealth policy. A key aspect of service delivery relates to defining care requirements, specifically to support sustainable intersectoral healthcare. Considering how nursing-sensitive language (clinical terminology) is best mapped is necessary to articulate the care requirements and processes to achieve optimal patient outcome. The World Health Organisational Framework for Integrated Care provides a pathway for crystallising the steep learning curve that the profession has currently found itself situated in, to deliver on contemporary digital healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) was developed as the standardized terminology by the International Council of Nursing (ICN) since 1999. It is important to evaluate the applicability of using ICNP® as the electronic nursing data exchange standardization when adopting in Taiwan. A total of 87% clinical nursing problems could be cross-mapped to DC axis of ICNP® version 2 in traditional Chinese language (Kappa = .96). Only five nursing problems (following care problem; blood transfusion; potential risk for unstable blood sugar level; hyperbilirubinemia; and caregiver anxiety) couldn't be matched. ICNP® could mostly support the electronic nursing data exchange standardization. Developing Taiwan-ICNP® as the local terminology was seemed to be the strategy to create a more adoptive standardization across the country for Taiwan health care data exchange in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The apparent speed and impact of creating a global digital landscape for health and social care tells us that the health workforce is playing catch-up with eHealth national programmes. Locating how and where the profession of nursing fits with future models of health service delivery is critical to provide focused engagement for the populations they serve. In 2016, Dublin City University (DCU) School of Nursing and Human Sciences (SNHS) created a research and development centre for International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) in Ireland. This paper provides a summary of the first year of the centre’s research, describing how the initial activities link to the development of global eHealth policy. A key aspect of service delivery relates to defining care requirements, specifically to support sustainable intersectoral healthcare. Considering how nursing-sensitive language (clinical terminology) is best mapped is necessary to articulate the care requirements and processes to achieve optimal patient outcome. The World Health Organisational Framework for Integrated Care provides a pathway for crystallising the steep learning curve that the profession has currently found itself situated in, to deliver on contemporary digital healthcare.

Abstract: Background and objectives: Standardized terminology is an important infrastructure component of the electronic health record. ICNP® is a systemic coding system that can support the development of nursing information systems. Translation of the standardized terminology preferred terms into local terms is an important first step in the translation process. The purpose of this case report is to describe the translation strategy used and challenges faced in translating ICNP® Version 2 preferred terms from English to traditional Chinese. Methods: A modified Delphi strategy using forward translation and expert consensus was conducted to facilitate semantic and cultural translation and validation of the ICNP® and to make the process generalizable. A nursing informatics expert completed the initial forward translation. Five nursing experts with rich clinical and academic experiences joined this process and validated the initial translation. The nursing experts’ consensus was then used to finalize the traditional Chinese terms. Results: A total of 1863 preferred terms from the ICNP® Version 2 were translated from English into traditional Chinese. Majority agreement from two or more nursing experts was achieved for 98.3% (n =1832) of the preferred term translations. Less than 2% (n =31) of terms had no majority agreement. Translation challenges include the following: (1) changes in code structure of preferred terms from the ICNP® β2 version to Verson 2, (2) inability to identify resources to complete the translation that fully met ICNP recommendations for terminology translators, (3) ambiguous preferred term descriptions, and (4) ambiguous preferred term names. Conclusions: Most of the ICNP® Version 2 preferred terms were translated from English into traditional Chinese with majority consensus. For the terms without consensus, we recommend that all synonyms be included in the ICNP® translation. In countries like Taiwan where nursing education occurs in English, it is recommended that English terms are displayed along with the translated official language to help nurses to interpret and use the terminology correctly. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Purpose: To describe the characteristics of dignified dying and other terminology nurses used to describe this phenomenon in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and the United States (US). Design: A cross-sectional descriptive survey with a convenience sample of nurses who cared for dying patients in Ethiopia ( n=14), India ( n=229), Kenya ( n=36), and the US ( n=281). Data were collected between 2002 and 2004. Methods: Nurses were recruited to complete the ICNP® Dignified Dying survey, which consists of demographic information, 2 open-ended questions, and 14 questions about characteristics of dignified dying. Findings: The 14 characteristics on the dignified dying scale reliably measured dignified dying, with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .91. All characteristics were rated as representative of dignified dying, with content validity scores ranging from .62 to .77. Factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution, which accounted for 53% of the variance. Conclusions: Findings of this study contribute to the ongoing development of the International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP®) regarding the nursing phenomenon of dignified dying. The ICNP®, a unified nursing language system, is used to promote and facilitate scholarly exchange among nurses across countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: The specific aims of this study were to propose a definition of the term informal settlement, validate the term informal settlement, and submit a term and definition for international utilization to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) for consideration for inclusion in the International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP®). Background: South Africa was one of four African countries (Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe) funded by the WK Kellogg Foundation to participate in the ICNP® project. South Africa had two research groups. One of the research groups identified the term informal settlement to define. Methods: This was a qualitative study where a philosophical perspective was used to explore, explain and describe nursing practice. The combined method proposed by the ICN was utilized to define and validate the term informal settlement. Findings: Validation and literature review provided sufficient support for the defined characteristics and the term was finally defined and submitted to ICN on 12 April 2001 as informal settlement is a type of residential development with the specific characteristics – temporary residential structures, erected with limited or no formal infrastructure, densely populated, no secure tenure for occupants, no property demarcations, often associated with overcrowding/limited or no privacy, and low standard of living, being situated in high risk areas with an increased risk for disease and disasters. Conclusion: The ICNP® Evaluation Committee recommended inclusion in the ICNP® with minor changes in February 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Traditionally, nursing care has been described as performing nursing tasks and often focused on nurses carrying out doctors’ orders. In many countries of the world, including Pakistan, nurses do not document care in a standardized manner. Because of this limitation many health administrators, policy makers, and consumers make inadequate assumptions about nursing work, often regarding nurses as any other ‘health care technician ’ who can be easily replaced by more economical health care workers. Purpose: To overcome this problem, standardized documentation is being introduced into the Aga Khan University School of Nursing and hospital, Aga Khan Health Services, Public Health School in Karachi, and government colleges of nursing, using the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®). The purpose of this paper is to highlight the process of introducing and developing standardized nursing care plans (NCP) using ICNP® in Pakistan. Process: The process for introducing ICNP® consists of four components, including administrative planning, development, teaching and training, and testing. Subsets of the ICNP® for (i) maternity: antenatal, postnatal and natal care; and (ii) cardiology were developed using standardized NCPs. The subsets were developed by nurse experts and introduced at the testing sites. The testing will be conducted as a pilot project. Findings from the pilot will be used to continue and expand standardized nursing documentation using the ICNP® across Pakistan. Conclusion: Through this project, nurses, midwives and lady health visitors (midwives, vaccinator and health educators) will test standardization of documentation and begin to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness of clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) – Alpha Version, is the first rendition of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) efforts to develop a standardized international nursing language system. This system has three principal components: nursing phenomena; nursing actions; and nursing outcomes. This article describes a study of agreements between terms used by nurses of the intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Sao Paulo, to designate patients’ nursing problems and the terms proposed by the ICNP® – Alpha Version. The records of 59 interned patients, admitted to the intensive therapy unit, were analysed for nursing problems. Of 336 problem categories listed by the nurses, 153 (45.5%) corresponded to the ICNP® terms. The 183 categories of problems that did not correspond to the ICNP® terms were categorized by the authors as the following: medical diagnoses (37.2%); signs (28.4%); interventions (26.2%); and historical data (8.2%). These results show that there may be no agreement between the concept of nursing phenomena for the ICNP® and of nursing problems for the nurses whose records were analysed. Considering that medical diagnoses, intervention and historical data could not be accepted as nursing phenomena for the ICNP®, the agreement is potentially higher than 45.5%. Readers can access the entire text of the ICNP® Beta Version by visiting http://www.icn.ch/icnpupdate.htm. Other information about the ICNP® and its development can be found at http://www.icn.ch/icnp.htm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThe study is intended to illustrate that the nursing phenomenon, Violence, exists as a phenomenon of the aggregate and should thus be classified, under the higher level phenomenon, Community, in the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®), published by the International Council of Nurses. This proposition was confirmed during a meeting of an international team of psychiatric nurses to plan reality-based postgraduate modules for the nine countries they represented. Substantiating data, based on the team’s module, Violence, clinical investigation and a review of the literature, evolved from a classroom project in north-east Brazil. The Master’s Degree nursing students conducted observations and interviews based on identified factors of the phenomenon on children in two municipal day-care centres in targeted neighbourhoods in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data were gleaned from observations and verbalizations regarding their individual drawings depicting sadness and happiness, from school records and observations of these children by their teachers. The data, evolving from the time-limited classroom project, are too sparse to be considered valid, but pave the road for further studies. Professional and lay-literature substantiates the occurrence of violence in the Brazilian society. Readers can access the entire text of the ICNP® Beta Version by visiting http://www.icn.ch/icnpupdate.htm. Other information about the ICNP® and its development can be found at http://www.icn.ch/icnp.htm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]