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Why is the use of a standard vocabulary important in nursing documentation?
To ensure that information regarding nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes are easily retrievable
What was the original impetus for developing a standard vocabulary for describing health-care phenomena in nursing?
To facilitate more widespread use of computers in documentation of care
What is the main purpose of using standardized terminology within electronic health records?
To communicate the impact of nursing care to the multidisciplinary team
What is the universal requirement that has made it imperative to express nursing knowledge in a meaningful way?
Quality patient care
What is the significance of organizing nursing care into taxonomic structures for diagnosing, treating, and organizing nursing care?
It is based on research evidence that can be used to direct nurses’ clinical decision-making
Why is a standard vocabulary for nursing essential in tracking a nurse’s contribution to patient outcomes?
To have the capacity to track a nurse’s contribution to outcomes
What does the documentation of nursing care using an electronic health record demonstrate?
The impact of nursing care on patient care
Why is it important for advanced practice nurses to have an acute understanding of standardized nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
To separate an efficient health care organisation from an inefficient one
What do professional informatics standards such as nursing informatics standards address?
Using standardized nomenclatures, coding systems, and vocabularies in practice
Why is it important to understand the many ways in which utilization of nursing languages will provide benefits to nursing practice and patient outcomes?
To improve nursing practice and patient outcomes
What do the development of classification systems for nursing care, nursing information management systems, and nursing data sets provide?
Tools that nurses in all countries could use to describe nursing and its contributions to health
What does Norma Lang's often-referenced quote 'If we cannot name it, we cannot control it, finance it, teach it, research it, or put it into public policy' emphasize?
The importance of naming concepts for control, financing, teaching, research, and public policy
What is the primary purpose of selecting appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR?
To facilitate the efficient delivery of high-quality health care
Why can selecting the appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR be daunting?
Due to the variety of care settings each nursing language/terminology is developed for
Why should nurses have an acute understanding of the standardised nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
It can potentially establish the line that separates an efficient health care organization from an inefficient one
What contributes to validating the significance of nursing practice?
Utilization of nursing languages providing benefits to nursing practice and patient outcomes
Test your knowledge of the original impetus to develop a standard vocabulary for describing health-care phenomena in nursing, and its importance in facilitating computer documentation of care. Learn about the coding of nursing information, data reliability, validity, and comparability across settings.
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