Nursing minimum data sets: a conceptual analysis and review

Abstract

It is commonly acknowledged that nursing care is underrepresented in the healthcare record. The nursing minimum data set (NMDS) has been proposed as a method of routinely collecting information on core aspects of the nursing contribution to care, organised primarily in terms of phenomena, interventions and outcomes. Potential applications in clinical nursing, healthcare management, education and research have been identified. NMDS systems have been developed in a number of countries, with applications mostly related to resource allocation. To date, NMDS systems have tended to examine physical nursing care provided in institutional settings, with implications for construct and content validity. While NMDS research helps to clarify the nursing contribution to care, attention is now required to better understand the domains of nursing care across a broader range of care settings.

Methods, metrics and research gaps around minimum data sets for nursing practice and fundamental care: A scoping literature review

“…Minimum data sets or nursing minimum data sets (i.e., systematic identification, documentation and retrieval of core aspects of the nursing practice; Mac Neela, Scott, Treacy, & Hyde, ) have been prioritised (Department of Health Ireland, ), and some initiatives have been identified for their development. The nursing minimum data set, the nursing management minimum data set (both developed in the USA; Pruinelli, Delaney, Garcia, Caspers, & Westra, ) and the Belgian nursing minimum data set (Sermeus, Delesie & Van Den Heede, K, ) are among the most recognised.…”

Is the ATIC terminology oriented to nursing phenomena?

“…Searching in Pubmed for "Nursing Diagnosis" and "Content validity", from 2012 back to 1991 and language limited to English, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian, retrieved 40 results. Only three of these research papers were related to whole controlled-vocabulary content validity, but two of them did not present any method nor result on that, just a consideration of its importance for building such terminological systems [11,12]. The other study, considered cultural adaptation of the OMAHA system and measured content validity using the inter-rater reliability with a panel of six nursing students [24].…”

“…Institutions and researchers from different countries have joined this professional mandate designing, implementing and evaluating controlled vocabularies for nursing practice [4,[8][9][10][11][12].…”

Development of Common Data Elements to Provide Tele self-Care Management

“…Although these technologies are improving continuously as new technologies are developing every day, the common feature is that they all allow remote access to a service (e.g. practitioner, nurse and specialist) and provide a means of supporting the provision of healthcare self management (25, 26). …”