The project International Classification of the Nursing Practices in Collective Health - CIPESCwas the Brazilian contribution for the incorporation of the notion of collectiveness in the International Classification of Nursing Practice - ICNP. This article aims at analyzing the bibliographical production concerning nursing classifications available in the virtual library in health database since 1990. This is a bibliographical survey of nursing practice classification systems and is part of a larger research that intends to identify the collective face of the CIPESCinstrument in the municipal health network of the city of Curitiba, in the State of Paraná. The result shows that the majority of the texts are based on the clinical-individual model, and those that emphasize the social-epidemiologic model are still a minority. In addition, most studies focused on the collective were disseminated through the publications of the Brazilian Nursing Association, which has the hegemony in the diffusion of the knowledge about the collective face of classification systems.
Classification; Public health nursing; Community health nursing; Nursing diagnosis; Nursing research
