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Why is the use of a standard vocabulary important in nursing documentation?
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 (correct)
- To track a nurse’s clinical decision-making process
- To communicate nursing knowledge to the multidisciplinary team
- To improve the efficiency and cost containment in patient care
What was the original impetus for developing a standard vocabulary for describing health-care phenomena in nursing?
What was the original impetus for developing a standard vocabulary for describing health-care phenomena in nursing?
- To allow for easy retrieval and tracking of nursing information
- To improve communication between nurses and the multidisciplinary team
- To track a nurse’s contribution to patient outcomes
- To facilitate more widespread use of computers in documentation of care (correct)
What is the main purpose of using standardized terminology within electronic health records?
What is the main purpose of using standardized terminology within electronic health records?
- To communicate the impact of nursing care to the multidisciplinary team (correct)
- To ensure internal control and quality patient care
- To facilitate research evidence-based clinical decision-making
- To improve communication between nurses and physicians
What is the universal requirement that has made it imperative to express nursing knowledge in a meaningful way?
What is the universal requirement that has made it imperative to express nursing knowledge in a meaningful way?
What is the significance of organizing nursing care into taxonomic structures for diagnosing, treating, and organizing nursing care?
What is the significance of organizing nursing care into taxonomic structures for diagnosing, treating, and organizing nursing care?
Why is a standard vocabulary for nursing essential in tracking a nurse’s contribution to patient outcomes?
Why is a standard vocabulary for nursing essential in tracking a nurse’s contribution to patient outcomes?
What does the documentation of nursing care using an electronic health record demonstrate?
What does the documentation of nursing care using an electronic health record demonstrate?
Why is it important for advanced practice nurses to have an acute understanding of standardized nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
Why is it important for advanced practice nurses to have an acute understanding of standardized nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
What do professional informatics standards such as nursing informatics standards address?
What do professional informatics standards such as nursing informatics standards address?
Why is it important to understand the many ways in which utilization of nursing languages will provide benefits to nursing practice and patient outcomes?
Why is it important to understand the many ways in which utilization of nursing languages will provide benefits to nursing practice and patient outcomes?
What do the development of classification systems for nursing care, nursing information management systems, and nursing data sets provide?
What do the development of classification systems for nursing care, nursing information management systems, and nursing data sets provide?
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?
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?
What is the primary purpose of selecting appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR?
What is the primary purpose of selecting appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR?
Why can selecting the appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR be daunting?
Why can selecting the appropriate nursing terminology implementation for use in the EHR be daunting?
Why should nurses have an acute understanding of the standardised nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
Why should nurses have an acute understanding of the standardised nursing terminology lists and classification systems?
What contributes to validating the significance of nursing practice?
What contributes to validating the significance of nursing practice?
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