Vision

ICNP® is an integral part of the global information infrastructure informing health care practice and policy to improve patient care worldwide.

Strategic Goals

• Serve as a major force to articulate nursing’s contribution to health and health care globally.
• Promote harmonization with other widely used classifications and the work of standardization groups in health and nursing.

Benefits

• Establishes an international standard to facilitate description and comparison of nursing practice;
• Serves as a unifying nursing language system for international nursing based on state-of-the-art terminology standards;
• Represents nursing concepts used in local, regional, national and international practice, across specialties, languages and cultures;
• Generates information about nursing practice that will influence decision-making, education and policy in the areas of patient needs, nursing interventions, health outcomes, and resource utilization;
• Facilitates the development of nursing data sets used in research to direct policy by describing and comparing nursing care of individuals, families and communities world wide;
• Improves communication within the discipline of nursing and across other disciplines;
• Encourages nurses to reflect on their own practice and influence improvements in quality of care.