title: Toward a uniform language for nursing in the US: work of the American Nurses Association Steering Committee on databases to support clinical practice.
abstract: This paper reports on the work of the American Nurses Association Steering Committee on Databases to Support Clinical Practice, in existence since 1989. Responding to its broad charges, the Steering Committee has laid down the foundations for its work in declaring the nursing process as the framework for nursing data in database systems, and in endorsing the Nursing Minimum Data Set as the set of minimum elements for any system designed to carry health-related data that reflects nursing care. In addition, the Steering Committee has begun initiatives to: 1) promote the inclusion of nursing-related data in large health-related databases, and 2) develop a Uniform Language for nursing through a phased approach. The Steering Committee also works directly with the International Council of Nurses to promote the inclusion of nursing data in internationally used classification systems and to develop an international language that describes nursing care.
authors.affiliation: American Nurses Association Department of Practice, Economics and Policy, 600 Maryland Ave. SW, Suite 100 West, Washington, DC 20024-2571.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Zielstorff
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Saba
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: McCormick
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Milholland
mesh_terms: D000575:American Nurses' Association; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D007256:Information Systems; D009729:Nursing / Q000145:classification*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification; D011050:Policy Making; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014481:United States; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled; D014944:World Health Organization