The Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) is a classification system which describes patient

Patient

A patient is any recipient of healthcare services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, veterinarian, or other health care provider....

 outcomes sensitive to nursing

Nursing

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....

 intervention. The NOC is a system to evaluate the effects of nursing care as a part of the nursing process

Nursing process

The nursing process is a modified scientific method. Nursing practise was first described as a four stage nursing process by Ida Jean Orlando in 1958,. It should not be confused with nursing theories or Health informatics...

. The NOC contains 330 outcomes, and each with a label, a definition, and a set of indicators and measures to determine achievement of the nursing outcome and are included The terminology is an American Nurses' Association-recognized terminology, is included in the UMLS, and is HL7 registered.

See also

• Clinical Care Classification System
  Clinical Care Classification System
  Clinical Care Classification SystemThe Clinical Care Classification System is a standardized, coded nursing terminology that identifies the discrete elements of nursing practice...
  
  
• Nursing care plan
  Nursing care plan
  A nursing care plan outlines the nursing care to be provided to an individual/family/community. It is a set of actions the nurse will implement to resolve/support nursing diagnoses identified by nursing assessment. The creation of the plan is an intermediate stage of the nursing process...
  
  
• Nursing diagnosis
  Nursing diagnosis
  A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgement about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes...
  
  
• Nursing process
  Nursing process
  The nursing process is a modified scientific method. Nursing practise was first described as a four stage nursing process by Ida Jean Orlando in 1958,. It should not be confused with nursing theories or Health informatics...
  
  
• NANDA
  NANDA
  NANDA International is a professional organization of nurses standardized nursing terminology that was officially founded in 1982 and develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses...
  
  
• Nursing Interventions Classification
  Nursing Interventions Classification
  The Nursing Interventions Classification is a care classification system which describes the activities that nurses perform as a part of the planning phase of the nursing process associate with the creation of a nursing care plan. The NIC consists of a standardized list which contains 433...
  
  
• Diagnosis-related group
  Diagnosis-related group
  Diagnosis-related group is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups. The 467th was "Ungroupable." The system of classification was developed as a collaborative project by Robert B Fetter, PhD of the Yale School of Management, and John D Thompson, MPH of the Yale...
  
  
• Omaha System
  Omaha System
  The Omaha System is a standardized health care terminology consisting of an assessment component , an intervention component , and an outcomes component...
  
  

External links

• Nursing Outcomes Classification (U. Iowa)