Conference Proceedings - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Trinity ...

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
and by relevant clinical practice specialty organisations; and a
feedback process to receive suggested changes has been
developed.
� It has an easy to use organising structure. All interventions
have definitions and interventions are numerically coded.
� It uses language that is clear and clinically meaningful.
Throughout the work, the language most useful in clinical
practice has been selected.
� A large and diverse research team developed it. Team
members represent multiple areas of clinical and
methodological expertise.
Benefits to Nursing Practice
� When nurses can describe what they do in terms that the public
and others understand, they begin measuring it, evaluating it,
and validating its impact on the nation’s health, research and
public policy.
� Standardized languages provide clear terminology so that
nurses can convey what it is that they do in a way that reflects
the knowledge and skills that are essential to nursing practice.
� The standardized language provides consistent terms for nurses
to use to describe and document their assessments,
interventions and the outcomes of their actions. As a
profession, this allows nurses to articulate the unique
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contribution of nursing to other members of the healthcare
team, administrators and the public.
Promotes continuity of care.
� Standardized languages can benefit nursing research. There is
currently a demand for healthcare providers, including nurses
to build on knowledge to support evidence-based practice.
Nurses must test the way in which they carry out nursing care
and determine if their interventions are producing positive
patient outcomes.
� It can be used to facilitate critical thinking and develop
curriculum in nursing programmes.
� Result in reduced amount of wring and will decrease duplication
of information.
� Eliminate the use of inappropriate information that is being
written on the progress notes.
� Facilitate the preparation for computerisation.
� Note taking will be more contemporaneous.
Benefits to Patients
� The use of standardized languages has the potential for a major
impact on patient care. The main benefit is the enhancement
of communication. Because nursing is an information intensive
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