NF EN ISO 18104

The purpose of ISO 18104:2003 is to establish a nursing reference terminology model consistent with the goals and objectives of other specific health terminology models in order to provide a more unified reference health model. This International Standard includes the development of reference terminology models for nursing diagnoses and nursing actions and relevant terminology and definitions for its implementation. The potential uses for this reference terminology model are to support the intensional definition of nursing diagnosis and nursing action concepts reflective of a broad range of roles and practice settings,facilitate the representation of nursing diagnosis and nursing action concepts and their relationships in a manner suitable for computer processing,provide a framework for the generation of compositional expressions from atomic concepts within a reference terminology,facilitate the construction of nursing terminologies in a regular form which will make mapping among them easier,facilitate the mapping among nursing diagnosis and nursing action concepts from various terminologies including those developed as interface terminologies and statistical classifications,enable the systematic evaluation of terminologies and associated terminology models for purposes of harmonization, andprovide a language to describe the structure of nursing diagnosis and nursing action concepts in order to enable appropriate integration with other reference terminology models and with information models.

This document specifies the characteristics of categorial structures, representing nursing practice. The overall aim of this document is to support interoperability in the exchange of meaningful information between information systems in respect of nursing diagnoses, nursing actions and nurse sensitive outcomes. Categorial structures for nursing diagnoses, nursing actions, nurse sensitive outcomes and associated categories support interoperability by providing common frameworks with which to a)       analyse the features of different terminologies, including pre- and post-coordinated expressions, those of other healthcare disciplines, and to establish the nature of the relationship between them,[3][4][5][6][7][8] b)       develop terminologies for representing nursing diagnoses, nursing actions,[9][10][11][12] and nurse sensitive outcomes, c)        develop terminologies that are able to be related to each other,[3][8][13] and d)       establish relationships between terminology models, information models, including archetypes, and ontologies in the nursing domain.[14][15][16][45] There is early evidence that the categorial structures can be used as a framework for analysing nursing practice,[17] for developing nursing content of electronic record systems,[18][19] document the value of nursing services provided and to make nursing’s contribution visible[16][36][47][50].