Nursing classification systems: necessary but not sufficient for representing "what nurses do" for inclusion in computer-based patient record systems.
Our premise is that from the perspective of maximum flexibility of data usage by computer-based record (CPR) systems, existing nursing classification systems are necessary, but not sufficient, for representing important aspects of "what nurses do." In particular, we have focused our attention on those classification systems that represent nurses' clinical activities through the abstraction of activities into categories of nursing interventions. In this theoretical paper, we argue that taxonomic, combinatorial [...]
Author(s): Henry, S B, Mead, C N
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040222