Nursing Standard Vocabulary Quiz

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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 (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?

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?

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?

Quality patient care Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

What does the documentation of nursing care using an electronic health record demonstrate?

The impact of nursing care on patient care Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

What do professional informatics standards such as nursing informatics standards address?

Using standardized nomenclatures, coding systems, and vocabularies in practice Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

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 Signup and view all the answers

What contributes to validating the significance of nursing practice?

Utilization of nursing languages providing benefits to nursing practice and patient outcomes Signup and view all the answers

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