Nursing Terms for Patients with Pressure Injury: a Terminological Study

Abstract

Aim: to construct a bank of specific nursing language terms for patients with pressure injury using the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®). Method: this is a terminological study performed in a hospital in the Northeast of Brazil. The work consists in the accomplishment of the identification and collection of the terms, the extraction of the terms of the medical records, the elimination of repeated terms, normalization of the terms, cross-mapping between the terms extracted and the terms in ICNP®, refinement of the terms, and validation of the expressions of the bank of terms. RESULTS: 391 terms that were submitted to cross-mapping and validation of experts were identified, resulting in 370 terms, of which 225 were constant and 145 were not constant in ICNP®. CONCLUSION: the identified terms valorized pathophysiological aspects, which support the planning of the care and evaluation of the results of the nursing interventions based on the physiological aspects.