• New! Two-color design provides easy readability.
• 554 research-based nursing intervention labels with nearly 13,000 specific activities.
• NEW! 23 additional interventions include: Central Venous Access Device Management, Commendation, Healing Touch, Dementia Management: Wandering, Life Skills Enhancement, Diet Staging: Weight Loss Surgery, Stem Cell Infusion and many more.
• NEW! 133 revised interventions are provided for 49 specialties, including five new specialty core interventions.
• NEW! Updated list of estimated time and educational level has been expanded to cover every intervention included in the text.

Front Matter

Preface

Strengths of NIC

Acknowledgements

Recognition List

Fellows

Organizations

Definitions of Terms

How to find an intervention

PART ONE

Overview and Use of the Classification

Chapter One: Understanding NIC

Chapter Two: Use of NIC in Practice, Education, and Research

PART TWO

Taxonomy of Nursing Interventions

PART THREE

The Classification

PART FOUR

Core Interventions for Nursing Specialty Areas

PART FIVE

Estimated Time and Education Level Necessary to Perform NIC Interventions

PART SIX

NIC Interventions Linked to NANDA-I Diagnoses

PART Seven

Appendixes

Appendix A: Interventions: New, Revised and Retired Since the Fifth Edition

Appendix B: Guidelines for Submission of a New or Revised Intervention

Appendix C: Timeline and Highlights for NIC

Appendix D: Abbreviations

Appendix E: Previous editions and translations