[Correspondence among care prescriptions for patients with orthopedic problems and the Nursing Interventions Classification].

The objective of this work was to compare the care prescribed by nurses for orthopedic surgery patients after surgery with the interventions and activities proposed by the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), in order to verify its agreement. The study was carried out at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (a University hospital in the south of Brazil), using the mapping technique. Data on the 170 studied patients were obtained by the Computerized Nursing Prescription System.