title: A Conceptual Model for Nursing Information.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This Conceptual Model for Nursing Information describes the core activities of nursing, the collection of information about these activities, and argues that these activities must be described using standardized nursing languages.
  
  
  METHODS
  Relevant literature, both national and international, was reviewed and summarized.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A maximum data set for nursing was developed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the United Kingdom, a new and radical approach to the process of nursing is required; one that demonstrates that nursing is the decision-making that takes place in all core activities of nursing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Unless nurses have a clear view of what the profession requires from technological solutions for the recording of nursing activities, less than optimal solutions will be forced upon the profession.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Care Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.
authors.forename: Rodney
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.forename: June
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000145:classification; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic