Standardized Terminologies In Nursing

Standardized terminologies are structured and controlled languages that have been developed according to terminology developed guidelines and have been approved by an authoritative body. Informatics nurse specialists have documented current efforts toward meeting the demand for a reference terminology of nursing concepts. These specialists are building on the foundation of existing interface and administrative terminologies, and are collaborating with efforts to develop terminology across the spectrum of healthcare. Such efforts address the “languages” spoken by nurses in a variety of practice settings. These include NANDA, NMDS, HHCC, OMAHA, NIC, PCDS etc. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) includes a multitude of diagnoses.
Nursing education programs often include nursing diagnoses in their curricula and serve as the basis for writing nursing care plans.
The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) included a focus on nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, nursing outcomes, and intensity of nursing care. The NMDS evidences support for the notion that health and nursing informatics encompasses pivotal roles of data and information. The Home Healthcare Classification (HHCC) includes a multitude of nursing diagnoses and interventions, while the OMAHA system includes numerous problems with interventions and outcome measures pertinent to community health. The Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) systems with numerous interventions represented for the NIC as well as numerous outcomes represented across a variety of domains and classes for the
NOC.
A personal health record is simply a collection of information about individual’s health.
Barriers to the adoption of PHRs include economic, technological, behavioral, and organizational issues, and barriers exist at both the environmental and individual levels. Limited access to computers and Internet access among low-income populations, known as the digital divide, is one such barrier. In addition patients and caregivers must know about the PHR tools and understand their value. Other issue is related to usability and eHealth literacy. All patients may not be able to use the application or have lower level of understanding of computing
technology.
Health information technology (HIT) is information technology applied to health and health care. It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors. The future areas for HIT would be to improve health care quality or effectiveness, increase health care productivity or efficiency, prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness, reduce health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes, Decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time, extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals and expand access to affordable care.