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Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC)
NOC classification standardizes nursing interventions and measurements for evidence-based outcomes in various nursing specialties at individual, family, or community levels. NOC provides clinically useful language and specific indicators to help deliver treatment, document outcomes, evaluate and rate the patient in relation to outcome achievements. It also helps healthcare providers with billing, record keeping and cost containment.

Overview
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) help nurses select the most effective care plans for patients. The classification facilitates effective communication among healthcare workers at all levels. Evidence based best practices can easily be adapted to the various specialties in medical practice. NOC also allows institutions to track and quantify nursing care

. The NOC outcomes are at a higher level of abstraction .The use of NOC within the nursing process requires scientific approaches to translate nursing care interventions that applies to a specific outcome to other areas in the overall patient care environment.

Importance of measuring outcomes in nursing care is crucial for incremental improvements in nursing care interventions that have standard nursing intervention classification (NIC). Nursing interventions are the nursing treatments that are performed by the nurses. NOC classifications have standardized linkages with other classifications such as NIC to facilitate communications and sharing of best practices, evidence and knowledge in order to achieve the overall health related goals. NIC is based on the clinical judgement and knowledge of nursing care providers, to improve the outcomes in patients.

Nursing Outcomes
Nursing outcomes can be categorized as individual, family, or community level outcomes. They can also be divided into Knowledge-focused or Behavioral outcomes with linkages to the various nursing interventions in the overall nursing processes.

Linkages
Linkages between NOC knowledge-focused outcomes and NOC behavioral outcomes focused on the concept or condition can provide flexibilities in nursing cares by providing standard languages by which providers can communicate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients by clearly isolating standards in the body of knowledge across the healthcare profession and the approaches used based the specific circumstances of every patient.

Labels
Labels with consistent applications in nursing care processes help reduce medical errors and facilitates effective utilization of nursing resources. A label name includes code, definition, set of indicators with codes, five-point Likert measurement scales, publication facts lines, and selected references.