title: Achieving linguistic clarity: a model to aid translations.
abstract: An international validation study of selected NANDA nursing diagnoses prompted the development of a linguistic model for standardizing and operationalizing the defining characteristics. The translation of NANDA-approved defining characteristics into Portuguese illuminated problems related to the way that sentences, phrases, and words are used. Defining characteristics were reduced into the simplest linguistic components--words. In Portuguese translation, all of the major NANDA-defining characteristics were classified into two alphabetized lists as single-word phenomena/states or qualifiers. Linguistic standardization permitted similar expressions of the defining characteristics in Portuguese and English.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Coler
mesh_terms: D008037:Linguistics; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D014175:Translating