title: [Philosophical and theoretical foundations for the development and validation of a nursing interface terminology. Part I].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An interface terminology is a standard vocabulary designed to ease data entry into electronic health records, to produce information and to generate knowledge.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings considered in the development of a new nursing interface terminology termed ATIC.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review, analysis and discussion of the main philosophical orientations, high and mid-range theories and nursing scientific literature. Interpretative conceptualization of the metaparadigm concepts: individual, health, environment and nursing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first part of this paper introduces ATIC and its foundation on pragmatism, holism, post-positivism and constructivism as major philosophical approaches. The second and third parts reflects the analysis of the related nursing theoretical development generated from different nursing schools of thought, made explicit through the conceptualization of the meta-paradigmatic concepts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ATIC terminology is rooted on an eclectic philosophical and theoretical foundation, allowing it to be used from different orientations or trends within the totality paradigm.
authors: Universidad de Barcelona. ejuve@ub.edu
authors: Maria-Eulàlia
authors: ME
authors: Juvé-Udina
mesh_terms: D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic