Standardized Language

Question 1

Standardized Language

Answer 1

a body of terms that have been agreed upon by an overarching authority, or at times, by general consent of participating individuals

ensure the meaning of a specific object, task, or knowledge is reflected in a similar fashion to others.

use common and consistent terms and terminology to describe their actions in practice

Question 2

Examples of Standardized Nursing Language System

Answer 2

NANDA (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association)
NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification)
NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification)
Omaha System
INCP (International Classification for Nursing Practice)

Question 3

ICNP® (International Classification for Nursing Practice)

Answer 3

only international nursing practice language that encompasses nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes

Question 4

SNOMED® (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine)

Answer 4

a comprehensive computerized clinical terminology that captures diseases, clinical findings, and procedures.

provide a “consistent way of indexing; storing, retrieving and aggregating digitized clinical data across specialties, sites of care and computing platforms

selected for use in Canada as the common reference terminology EHR

a clinical terminology and is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology in the world