ICNP Catalogues for Supporting Nursing Content in eHealth Amy COENEN a,1 , Tae Youn KIM a , Claudia C. BARTZ a , Kay JANSEN a and Nicholas HARDIKER a a International Council of Nurses, Geneva Switzerland Abstract. The purpose of this study was to describe sets of nursing concepts, including for example nursing diagnoses and interventions, which are knowledge- based and clinically relevant to support nursing practice. Health information systems using the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP ® ) provide a platform for standardized nursing documentation for patients’ health care, clinical decision support, and repositories for re-use of clinical data for quality evaluation, research, management decisions and policy development. Clinically relevant sets of ICNP concepts can facilitate implementation of health information systems for nursing. A qualitative content analysis was performed to examine the types of and relationships among existing nursing content sets. Findings included the need for various types of ICNP Catalogues, as content sets, for nursing documentation. Five types of ICNP Catalogues included Care Plans, Order Sets, Clinical Templates, Nursing Minimum Data Sets, and Terminology Subsets. Keywords. ICNP, nursing terminologies, nursing documentation, decision support, electronic health record Introduction From its inception, the aims of developing the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP ® ) was to support standardized nursing documentation and to have documentation data which can be used to study nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and client outcomes for evidence supporting best practice, healthcare management decisions, and policy development. Each biennial release of ICNP since Version 1.0, in 2008, has had an increased number of nursing diagnosis, outcome, and intervention statements [1]. The ICNP diagnoses, outcomes and intervention statements are composed using the ISO (2003) reference terminology model for nursing [2] and primitive concepts from the ICNP 7-axis model [3]. With the increase of pre- coordinated concepts, it is unnecessary for every ICNP user to develop local, post- coordinated statements using concepts from the ICNP 7-axis model. More research is needed to develop and disseminate pre-coordinated sets of concepts to assist users in the implementation of ICNP and other health terminology standards. Because the ICNP is a complex and large terminology, clinical users agreed that they are better served with subsets that meet their information needs in the care setting 1 Amy Coenen. ICNP Programme Director, International Council of Nurses, 3 place Jean-Marteau, Geneva, Switzerland, CH-1201; E-mail: coenena@uwm.edu.