“…Studies that conducted the NP manually or electronically in the clinical practice did not indicate the way of patient's assessment, signs and symptoms specific to any nursing diagnosis, the number of nursing diagnoses that were recorded in the software or that they were trained and the number of diagnoses that nurses identified after completing the process at the wards (Cho & Park, ; Dal Sasso et al, ; Di Mauro et al, ; Dykes et al, ; Frigstad et al, ; Lima & Kurcgant, ; Lima, Vieira, & Nunes, ; Lopes, Higa, Reis, Oliveira, & Christóforo, ; Mazlom & Rajabpoor, ; Minthorn & Lunney, ; Paese et al, ; Rahmani et al, ; Saba & Feeg, ; Sayadi & Rokhafroz, ; Semachew, ; Silva, Évora, & Cintra, ; Zamanzadeh et al, ).…”