Application of anthropometric methods in the nursing process of nursing research.

Objectives: to identify anthropometric techniques and measurements related to nursing diagnoses and interventions, included in the NANDA International (NANDA-I) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), respectively.

Methods: descriptive study of the revision of the NANDA-I and NIC taxonomies by professors of Nursing of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Results: A total of 24 nursing diagnoses, 20 nursing interventions and 71 nursing activities were identified that require the use of anthropometric measurements.

Occupational and work-related disease underestimated and linked to temporary disability through Primary Health Care Services.

Aim: To estimate the occupational disease linked to temporary incapacity (not work-related illness).

Background: The under-reporting of occupational disease is a recognized problem in Europe.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted in Spanish adult population using periods of temporary incapacity recorded in primary care during 2015.

Effectiveness of Nursing Process Use in Primary Care.

Purpose: To determine whether patients assigned to primary care nurses who use the nursing process (use of NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC) achieve better intermediate health outcomes than the population assigned to nurses who do not use the nursing process.

Methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted in 34 primary healthcare centers of Area 11 of the Community of Madrid (Spain) based on electronic health records.

Findings: The extension of health care provided was greater in nurses who used the nursing process.