Bank of terms for clinical nursing practice with community elderly

Abstract

The aim of this methodological research was to build a database of terms for clinical nursing practice with elderly followed by the Family Health Strategy teams based on official documents on elderly published in Brazil, and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®), and validate it with specialist nurses in the area. It was performed from 2013 until 2014, based on document analysis, identification, extraction, normalization, validation and cross-mapping of terms relevant to clinical practice. In total were identified 332 terms, then they were submitted to the cross-mapping process, resulting in 271 constant and 61 non-constant terms in the ICNP® version 2013. The use of these terms is expected to allow the unification of the professional language of nurses and the implementation of nursing care systematization at this level of attention.