title: A controlled nursing vocabulary for indexing and information retrieval.
abstract: The lack of a nursing thesaurus in Finnish has emerged among nursing professionals searching nursing knowledge and librarians when indexing literature to databases. The Finnish Nursing Education Society launched a project focusing on the development of a nursing vocabulary and the compilation of a thesaurus. The content of a vocabulary was created by six experts using Delphi-technique. The validity of the vocabulary was twice tested for indexing nursing research and has afterwards been revised. The vocabulary can be used for indexing and information retrieval purposes. The main challenge is that nurses easily can find national as well as international nursing research from databases and enhance research utilization.
authors.affiliation: Finnish Nurses Association, Helsinki, Finland. pekkala@unlink.org
authors.forename: Eila
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pekkala
authors.forename: Kaija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saranto
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tallberg
authors.forename: Anneli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ensio
authors.forename: Kristiina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Junttila
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005387:Finland; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009736:Nursing Process; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled