title: Nursing informatics: a universal nursing language.
abstract: Knowledge is necessary to use information to make decisions in nursing situations. Nursing data must be grouped in a logical way so the interrelationship between the classification systems and specific concrete phenomena in individual nursing situations is useful. The processing and management of information for decision making is the focus in nursing and health care. The development and use of language that represents the domain of nursing is an essential dimension in an integrated and coordinated health care delivery system. The design and acceptance of a universal nursing language system is critical to collect appropriate data to document nursing's role, functions, and effectiveness in health care by the year 2000. This is an urgent message for nurses to be involved in the technology and nursing care documentation to demonstrate quality care that is cost effective. In the next century, nurses must speak a common nursing language that has the same meaning for all nurses.
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mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009729:Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled