pt. 1. Overview of NIC. 1. Understanding NIC. A description of NIC -- Companion classification: nursing outcomes classification -- Center for nursing classification and clinical effectiveness -- Questions sometimes asked about NIC : Types of interventions ; Choosing an intervention ; Activities ; Implementing/computerizing NIC ; Other -- 2. Use of NIC in practice, education, and research. Use of NIC in practice : Selecting an intervention ; Implementing NIC in a clinical practice agency ; Use of a standardized language model -- Use of NIC in education : Using NIC in the outcome-present state-test (OPT) model of reflective clinical reasoning ; Use of NIC in Research -- pt. 2. Taxonomy of nursing interventions. Overview of the NIC taxonomy ; NIC taxonomy -- pt. 3. The classification [in alphabetical order] -- pt. 4. Core interventions for nursing specialty areas -- pt. 5. Estimated time and education level necessary to perform NIC interventions -- pt. 6. NIC interventions linked to NANDA-I diagnoses -- pt. 7. Appendixes : A. Interventions: new, revised, and retired since the fifth edition ; B. Guidelines for submission of a new or revised intervention ; C. Timeline and highlights for NIC ; Abbreviations ; Previous editions and translations.