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The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) is a classification system that aims at an universal standardized language for nursing. This article aims to discuss the results of studies addressing ICNP. This is a review of the literature in the database of the Virtual Health Library, by the term "ICNP" with coverage until 2009. 124 articles were found; 65 were analyzed and their contents were grouped in nine categories: general approaches; applicability in practice; assessment ratings; experiments with computational resources; development and inclusion of terms; approach to classification systems; use to anchor the building of nursing statements; translations; and others. It was found that few studies present projects or evaluate the practical applications of ICNP. The majority discusses conceptual issues or compare ICNP with other classification systems. Several studies conclude about the appropriateness and relevance of ICNP, despite pointing a need for improvement.

The ICNP® model of seven axes resulted in the transfer of terms between the axes, conceptual modifications, inclusion and exclusion of terms. This descriptive, bibliographic study, mapped out the terms of the axes "Time", "Location", "Means" and "Client" among Beta-2, 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the ICNP® and CIPESC®. The mapping located the terms of these axes in the different versions of the ICNP® and CIPESC®. It was performed to classify the semantic equivalence of terms and concepts. The result shows that some changes have the objective of reducing ambiguities and redundancies; others do not allow the verification of the criterion for exclusion, inclusion and migration of terms. It is imperative to establish concepts of consensus by the group responsible for building the terminology in order to minimize the misuse or improper use of terms. It is necessary to revise the list of actions in the vocabulary inventory of CIPESC®.

This paper presents the ISO 18.104:2003 as an integrative model of nursing terminology. It describes the standard, studies and experiences with its use and discusses possibilities to develop knowledge in the field. The standard has been shown to be effective in developing reference terminologies, and as a standard method for interoperability and reuse. Studies have internal limitations such as language and notations unknown to nursing. Correspondence of the model with classifications used in health services and practice is incipient, which hinders its applicability and development due to the lack of examples to be analyzed and discussed.

It is an unquestionable fact, the importance, relevance and necessity of implementing the Nursing Care Systematization in the different environments of professional practice. Considering it as a principle, emerged the motivation for the development of an information system to support the Nursing Care Systematization, based on Nursing Process steps and Human Needs, using the diagnoses language, nursing interventions and outcomes for professional practice documentation. This paper describes the methodological steps and results of the information system development - requirements elicitation, modeling, object-relational mapping, implementation and system validation.

This paper presents a reflection on the ICNP and CIPESC construed as a technological innovation capable of sustaining the nursing knowledge. They may be considered as product and process innovations that, inserted on complex realities, must estimate values and local cultures. The CIPESC strengthens the presence of phenomena from the nursing practice in the SUS and to survive with autonomy and sharing information, it should be combined with institutional information systems and the ICNP, thus it will establish cultural values strong enough to be available and to interact with systems of language of the profession as well as with systems in use in the SUS context. Our challenge is to overcome the use of a classification system as a mere instrument of work and view it as a technological innovation able to produce changes that will give the opportunity for nursing work.

Due to structural changes of classifications: ICNP beta-2, version 1.0 and CIPESC, this descriptive study aims to identify similarities and differences by building a map between the terms of the focus of practice. The ICNP 1.0 on the beta-2 shows: 41% are new terms, 33% identical, 4% with expanded concepts, 12% modified; 8% different and 2% there are concepts only in beta-2. The ICNP 1.0 in relation to CIPESC presents: 79% are new; 8% identical; 1% extended; 5% modified; 4% different and 3% without concept. There were difficulties from the process of Brazilian translating and publishing of ICNP 1.0 and the absence of some concepts in terms of CIPESC. This work will trigger the validation process for non equivalent terms.

The project International Classification of the Nursing Practices in Collective Health-CIPESC was the Brazilian contribution for the incorporation of the notion of collectiveness in the International Classification of Nursing Practice-ICNP. This article aims at analyzing the bibliographical production concerning nursing classifications available in the virtual library in health database since 1990. This is a bibliographical survey of nursing practice classification systems and is part of a larger research that intends to identify the collective face of the CIPESC instrument in the municipal health network of the city of Curitiba, in the State of Parana. The result shows that the majority of the texts are based on the clinical-individual model, and those that emphasize the social-epidemiologic model are still a minority. In addition, most studies focused on the collective were disseminated through the publications of the Brazilian Nursing Association, which has the hegemony in the diffusion of the knowledge about the collective face of classification systems.

This study aims to present the basis to build a re-reading tool of the Health-Disease Process which relies on dialogical relation among social categories and the functional variables found in the a consultation instrument. The tool is an analytical model for decision support that intends the development of data warehousing. Data from the electronic records of nursing consultation were related to the categories: need, social class, gender, race and generation, unveil the social aspects of the health--disease process and assign degrees of vulnerability to homogeneous social groups. Four degrees of vulnerability can be observed that are qualified by eleven markers. The tool lead to the reflection that inequalities are reproduced as time goes by and transforms groups in targets from the social immobility. Although there are some gaps for the visualization of the social categories, the tool enables to visualize the collective face of families and social groups.

Curitiba has been utilized system CIPESC--International Nursing Practice Classification in Collective Health. This study goal identifies the activities of nursing staff in the health units of Bairro Novo district of Curitiba City. We interviewed nursing and auxiliaries using check-list. The results showed: the sheltering is done by everyone; the auxiliaries' activities are procedures caring; all the nurses do nursing consultation and most of then use computer-based system CIPESCO. In conclusion, excepting the research activities, the nursing staff works all the time according municipality program, such is under organized and scientific based system to giving nursing care, emphasizing at women health. Activities such as planning and education have been improved also.