Introduction:

Nursing develops its activity in a multidisciplinary setting where the autonomous sphere and that of other professionals are mixed, while diagnostic competence is paramount. NANDA-International is the most widely used nurse classification, while the International Classification of Diseases is the reference for medical problems. Occasionally, the related factors/risk of NANDA-International coincide with medical diagnoses.

Objective:

To carry out cross-mapping between NANDA-International and the International Classification of Diseases.

Methods:

Observational study with frequency distribution by cross-mapping and identifying synonyms or quasi-synonyms in both classifications.

Results:

We determined 1715 related factors/risk; 1193 were classified on one occasion and 522 were duplicated. The genuine and specific factors were 1593 (52.16%); 1460 (47.84%) were also in the medical classification.

Conclusions:

Some NANDA-International domains and classes show genuine and specific factors in the nursing discipline, while others are also in the medical classification, whose resolution is not autonomously a nursing competence. In this way, NANDA-International can become an extensive and unhelpful tool, with little specific etiologies. Content related to nursing metaparadigms must be improved and enhanced to become visible with their own entity in the health systems.

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