Citation

Luzia MF, Argenta C, Almeida MA, Lucena AF. Rev. Bras. Enferm. 2018; 71(2): 431-439.

Affiliation

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Associacao Brasilerira de Enfermagem)

DOI

10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0686

PMID

29412303

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to construct conceptual definitions for indicators of nursing outcome Knowledge: Fall Prevention, selected for evaluation of hospitalized patients with the nursing diagnosis Risk for falls.

METHOD: integrative literature review performed in the LILACS, MEDLINE and Web of Science databases, comprising articles published in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages from 2005 to 2015.

RESULTS: the final sample of the study was composed of 17 articles. The conceptualizations were constructed for 14 indicators of nursing outcome Knowledge: Fall Prevention focused on hospitalized patients.

CONCLUSION: the theoretical support of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), through the process of constructing the conceptual definitions of the indicators of its results, allows nurses to accurately implement this classification in clinical practice and to evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions through the change of the patients' status over time.

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