The nursing process was used as a framework for
this literature review of health promotion of adults
with HBP. The Knowledge-based Nursing Initiative
(KBNI) was employed to develop an EBN guideline
and to identify the nursing process components.
Table 1 illustrated the KBNI method for question
guiding as a way to identify nursing process components
from the literature review.A key feature of the
KBNI model is the use of standardized nursing language
that includes the ICNP so as to represent these
components of the nursing process including nursing
diagnoses, interventions and outcomes in a retrievable
form in electronic data warehouses. This facilitates
the use of these data for nursing research. The
data from research and other references were summarized,
sorted and grouped by major concepts:
nursing diagnoses with assessment factors and related
outcomes, and nursing interventions based on the
method of the KBNI question guides (Table 1).