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An Update on Nursing’s Unified Language System

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Nursing Informatics

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Abstract

Since 1988, there has been much progress toward a unified nursing language system (UNLS) for the nursing profession. Even more importantly, there has been significant progress within health reform and the computer-based patient record to mandate more information access, which necessitates the nursing language system and terminology for nursing with a defined structure and syntax. Progress in funded nursing research has also brought new tools in diagnosis, nursing interventions, and some outcomes of care. Further, the professional associations at a national and international level have initiated steps toward the development of a UNLS. In previous studies, the concept and advantages of building a UNLS have been described (McCormick, 1988, 1991; McCormick et al., 1994; McCormick and Zielstorff, 1993).

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  1. Kathleen A. McCormick
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  2. Department of Community Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada

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  3. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, USA

    Susan K. Newbold (Doctoral Student) (Doctoral Student)

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McCormick, K.A. (1995). An Update on Nursing’s Unified Language System. In: Ball, M.J., Hannah, K.J., Newbold, S.K., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Nursing Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2428-8_11

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