This PPOC content profile scope contains five of the six components of the nursing process to document human response. The assessment information, as described in the use case, is added to support a depiction of change in health status leading to patient admission, discharge and transfer to another level of care. Assessment documentation profiles will be proposed in future years and as such will not be in scope for the current work.

The PPOC Profile provides a mechanism for capture and electronic exchange of data related to creating and managing individualized patient care between and among HIT systems. This profile enables the exchange of this information based on concepts for diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes in a standardized framework using the American Nurses Association (ANA) nursing process to evolve its information model.  It is for example informed by models of care used in the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System , and can convey the concepts found in that and other controlled vocabularies.

These models extend the description of the content structures for the plan of care in the current technical framework. The PPOC focuses on the following six components in a clinical document: 
  1.	Assessment
  2.	Nursing Diagnosis
  3.	Outcomes Identification
  4.	Planning
  5.	Implementation (Interventions)
  6.	Evaluation
