Applying ICF in nursing practice: classifying elements of nursing diagnoses

Abstract

The ICF has relevance to nursing care. As a general classification, it was not designed by nurses or specifically for nursing care. This can explain some difficulties in using the classification that were identified in this study, as well as the rather low levels of agreement. To resolve these issues and to further improve the classification, nurses should further explore the use of the ICF and participate in future revision processes.

Systematic literature review on ICF from 2001 to 2009: its use, implementation and operationalisation

“…Descriptive statistics for subcategories are reported in Table IV A total of 32 papers described practical applications of the ICF in clinical contexts but not in specific health conditions. They include the development of methodologies and application of tools for health professionals [409,413,425,428,434], and the description of disability of diverse groups of patients from different clinical settings [338,405,419,423,[427][428][429][430][431], and the identification of relevant categories of ICF [407,410,411,414,417,418,420,422,424].…”

(In)dependência funcional na dependente relação de homens tetraplégicos com seus (in)substituíveis pais/cuidadores

“…Concerning the care to their children, it is a fact that the mother and/or the father experience, in their relation with their children, the intimate relation of the care that satisfies their needs for acceptance, trust and body contact, in the development of the self and social consciences (9) . This constitutes an allusion to the female archetype and its relation to the ways of human care, for instance the nursing, emphasizing what is evidenced through the exemplary care of mothers/fathers to their quadriplegic children, developed with unconditional dedication and love (5) .…”

“…This can explain some difficulties in the use of this classification which were identified in the nursing area, both in the teaching and research area and in the care scope. In order to solve this asymmetry and progress in the improvement and adjustment of the ICF to the nursing knowledge, nurses should invest in the comprehension of their essential elements, social dimension and practical implications in their contexts of teaching, researching and care, as well as become more visible and participative in future reviews of its constitutive process (9)(10) .…”

How Nurses are Using the International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health: An Integrative Review

“…Evidence showed there are attempts to apply the ICF in clinical nursing practice in fourteen selected articles (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26). In most articles (n=9), ICF application in clinical practice is defined in the Rehabilitation Nursing area (13,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)26), directed primarily to nursing interventions (n=4) with patients in acute and post-acute situations requiring rehabilitation (13,17) and patients with spinal cord injury (16,21,26).…”