Robinson L, Hughes L C, Adler D C, Strumpf N, Grobe S J, McCorkle R
University of San Diego, CA, USA.
Res Nurs Health. 1999 Aug;22(4):321-8. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199908)22:4<321::aid-nur6>3.0.co;2-x.
Nursing interventions were provided to older men following prostate surgery during a controlled clinical trial examining nursing care and its effects on quality of life outcomes. The Nursing Intervention Lexicon and Taxonomy (NILT), consisting of 7 categories of nursing interventions, was used to classify intervention statements extracted from 32 home care records. Two major categories of interventions were patient teaching (45%) and psychologically based interventions (20%). In a comparison of the types of interventions provided upon discharge from the hospital with those provided at the end of 1 month of home care, it appeared that patients had not yet shifted from the crisis to the chronic phase of their illness course based on Rolland's framework.
