Standardized Nursing Language and Terminologies
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Why is a standard vocabulary for nursing essential?

  • To track a nurse’s contribution to outcomes
  • To improve communication between nurses and patients
  • To organize nursing care based on taxonomic structures
  • To facilitate the use of computers in documentation of care (correct)

What is the primary purpose of using a standard vocabulary in electronic health records?

  • To improve patient-nurse communication
  • To facilitate communication of nurse's impact on patient care (correct)
  • To ensure thorough documentation of nursing diagnoses
  • To streamline the billing process for patient care

How does a standard vocabulary help in tracking nursing information?

  • By standardizing the format of nursing documentation
  • By making nursing information easily retrievable and trackable across settings (correct)
  • By automating the nursing care process
  • By improving the accuracy of nursing diagnoses

What is the driving force behind the need for expressing nursing knowledge in a meaningful way?

<p>Universal requirement for quality patient care (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main benefit of using a standard vocabulary for nursing in documentation of care?

<p>Reliability, validity, and comparability of data across settings (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does using standardized terminology benefit nurses' clinical decision-making?

<p>By providing context-free elements based on research evidence (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of standardized nursing language (SNL)?

<p>To provide a common language for describing clinical judgments in nursing care (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of advanced practice nurses having an understanding of standardized nursing terminology lists?

<p>It separates efficient healthcare organizations from inefficient ones (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is the selection of appropriate nursing terminology implementation for electronic health records daunting?

<p>Because of the complexity in choosing from a variety of terminologies for different care settings (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do professional informatics standards address in the context of nursing informatics?

<p>Use of standardized nomenclatures, coding systems, and vocabularies in practice (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of classification systems for nursing care, nursing information management systems, and nursing data sets?

<p>To provide tools for nurses to describe nursing and its contributions to health (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Norma Lang, why is naming something important in the context of nursing?

<p>It helps nurses control, finance, teach, research, and put it into public policy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of the Committee for the Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure (CNPII)?

<p>To guide the standards terminologies used in nursing practice (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many terminology sets support nursing practice approved by the American Nurses Association (ANA, 2012)?

<p>Twelve terminology sets (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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