1. Chapter 7 Terminologies

2. Standardized Nursing Terminology
A body of the terms used in nursing. There are many nursing terminologies, formal and informal. Nursing terminologies allow us consistently to capture, represent, access, and communicate nursing data, information, and knowledge

3. Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
Terminology that covers interventions performed by nurses and other providers

4. Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
Terminology that covers patient/client outcomes, presented as an alphabetical list.

5. North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA-I)
NANDA International maintains an agreed set of nursing diagnoses organized as a multiaxial taxonomy of domains and classes

6. Approaches To Nursing Terminology
Enumerative Approach
Ontological Approach

7. Exploiting Similarities
Similarities have been exploited in the development of an international technical standard: ISO 18104:2003 health informatics—integration of a reference terminology model for nursing

8. ISO 18104:2003
Developed through a consensus process that considered a number of standardized nursing terminologies in order to determine a model or schema that could outline the basic form of nursing statements (i.e., a reference terminology model for nursing).

9. ISO 18104:2003
At the heart of the standard are in fact two models—a model for nursing diagnosis and a model for nursing action.

10. ISO 18104:2003
One of the main purposes is to facilitate the systematic evaluation and refinement of existing terminologies—discovering anomalies within nursing terminologies through noncompliant decompositions.

11. ISO 18104:2003
Another purpose is to support the generation, in regular form, of composite nursing statements—ensuring consistency in emerging terminologies. Hopefully, the standard will facilitate the harmonization or convergence of standardized nursing terminologies across the world.

12. Summary
The results of contemporary terminology work are encouraging. However, further work is needed to harmonise standardized nursing terminologies and to scale up and mainstream the development and implementation of models of terminology use.