Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)

Benefits

Values of Standardized Nursing Language-NOC in Managed Care

1. Labels and provides measures for comprehensive outcomes that respond to nursing intervention.

2. Defines outcomes that focus on the patient and can be used by both nurses and other disciplines.

3. Provides more specific outcome information than global health status measures. This allows providers to identify problems when global health status measures are not in an acceptable range.

4. Provides outcomes that are intermediate to the achievement of longer range desired outcomes.

5. Uses a scale to measure outcomes which provides quantifiable information about patient outcomes achieved in an organization or managed care system.

6. Facilitates the identification of risk adjustment factors for population groups. This is a necessary step in the assessment of outcome variance.