Terms of the specialized nursing language in the care of older adults at home

OBJECTIVE: To identify terms of the specialized nursing language used in the care of older adults at home and map them with the International Classification for Nursing Practice. METHOD: This is a methodological study, operationalized by the steps of extraction of terms from the specialized nursing language in the care of older adults at home from official documents; normalization; cross mapping between extracted terms and those included in the International Classification for Nursing Practice, 2019/2020 version; distribution according to the Seven-Axis Model. RESULTS: A total of 12,365 terms were identified and, after manual screening, 530 terms were included, which were mapped with the International Classification for Nursing Practice and analyzed according to the level of equivalence, resulting in the presence of 460 (86.8%) terms, 375 (70.7%) with level of equivalence 1 and 85 (16.0%) with level of equivalence 2; and 70 (13.2%) non-included terms, 34 (6.4%) with level of equivalence 3, 22 (4.1%) with level of equivalence 4 and 14 (2.6%) with level of equivalence 5. CONCLUSION: The terms identified will serve as a basis for the elaboration of diagnoses, results, and nursing interventions for older adults living at home.