title: What's in a name? The taxonomy and nomenclature puzzle, part 2.
abstract: Learn the elements that make standardizing nursing nomenclatures and taxonomies a difficult task.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Infomatics, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Roy L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D000575:American Nurses' Association; D016208:Databases, Factual; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled