title: Validating nursing theory for use within a computerized nursing information system.
abstract: Computerized nursing information systems (CNISs) exemplify the application of computer science to nursing knowledge. For nursing knowledge to be a basis for CNIS development, variable relationships must be clearly defined, thus allowing transformation of data into knowledge. Nursing theories define variable relationships; these definitions, however, often are not specific enough on which to base data-based nursing information systems. This article describes how a nursing process model was derived from Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory, the process model validated, and data relationships established within the model prior to its use as a structure for a CNIS.
authors: College of Nursing, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Bliss-Holtz
authors: K
authors: K
authors: McLaughlin
authors: S G
authors: SG
authors: Taylor
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory