Objectives: to analyze the concept of "interruption in the work of nursing professionals".
Methods: conceptual study according to the method proposed by Walker and Avant through integrative literature review. The study searched the databases using the descriptors: "Attention", "Attention Bias", "Health Personnel", "Nurses", "Patient Safety" and "Medical Malpractices".
Objective: to analyze the correspondence between the actions contained in the fall prevention protocol of the Ministry of Health and the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) by a cross-mapping.
Method: this is a descriptive study carried out in four stages: protocol survey, identification of NIC interventions related to nursing diagnosis, the risk of falls, cross-mapping, and validation of the mapping from the Delphi technique.
Results: there were 51 actions identified in the protocol and 42 interventions in the NIC.