The Generation and Classification of Nursing Diagnoses: Toward A Theory of Nursing

Kritek, Phyllis B.

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.1978.tb01513.x

Cited by 17 publications

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“…NANDA-I is a membership-driven group with committee structures (Kritek, 1978;Martin, 2005;Saba, 1997;Saba & Taylor, 2007), for example, the Taxonomy and Diagnosis Development Committees, working to maintain the NANDA-I taxonomy. The developers of the Nursing Interventions Classifi cation (NIC) and the Nursing Outcomes Classifi cation (NOC) were NANDA-I members but developed NIC and NOC with funding from the National Institutes of Health, using large research teams based at the University of Iowa (Bulechek, Butcher, & Dochterman, 2008;Johnson, Maas, & Moorhead, 1997Moorhead, Johnson, Maas, & Swanson, 2008).…”

Section: Existing Snlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Standardized Nursing Languages Essential for the Nursing Workforce

Jones¹,

Lunney²,

Keenan³

et al. 2010

Annu Rev Nurs Res

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The evolution of standardized nursing languages (SNLs) has been occurring for more than four decades. The importance of this work continues to be acknowledged as an effective strategy to delineate professional nursing practice. In today's health care environment, the demand to deliver cost-effective, safe, quality patient care is an essential mandate embedded in all health reform policies. Communicating the contributions of professional nursing practice to other nurses, health providers, and other members of the health care team requires the articulation of nursing's focus of concern and responses to these concerns to improve patient outcomes. The visibility of the electronic health record (EHR) in practice settings has accelerated the need for nursing to communicate its practice within the structure of the electronic format. The integration of SNLs into the patient record offers nurses an opportunity to describe the focus of their practice through the identification of nursing diagnosis, interventions and outcomes (IOM, 2010). Continued development, testing, and refinement of SNLs offers nursing an accurate and reliable way to use data elements across populations and settings to communicate nursing practice, enable nursing administrators and leaders in health care to delineate needed resources, cost out nursing care with greater precision, and design new models of care that reflect nurse-patient ratios and patient acuity that are data driven (Pesut & Herman, 1998). The continued use of nursing languages and acceleration of nursing research using this data can provide the needed evidence to help link nursing knowledge to evidence-driven, cost-effective, quality outcomes that more accurately reflect nursing's impact on patient care as well as the health care system of which they are a part. The evaluation of research to support the development, use, and continued refinement of nursing language is critical to research and the transformation of patient care by nurses on a global level.

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Section: Existing Snlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Standardized Nursing Languages Essential for the Nursing Workforce

Jones¹,

Lunney²,

Keenan³

et al. 2010

Annu Rev Nurs Res

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“…Some have commented that nursing has skipped the first stage of theory development, which involves specifying, defining, and classifying concepts (Kritek, 1978). Hinshaw, in her keynote address at the 1988 NANDA Conference also remarked that Ultimately, it will be important to have a body of knowledge surrounding and undergirding each nursing diagnosis in order to justify the use of the information in practice.…”

Section: Conceptual Model Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Theory‐Based Diagnostic Categories

Gordon¹

1990

International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classificati

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As a social institution, nursing has a responsibility to society for the development of knowledge in the areas described by nursing diagnoses. This article focuses on the need for developing the theoretical basis of each diagnostic category. Diagnoses are viewed as summarizations of underlying conceptual models for interpreting observations, and as such, they provide a perspective for understanding and thinking about a set of clinical observations. At present many diagnostic concepts do not meet this standard and suggest primitive, pretheoretical ideas with a minimal knowledge base. The importance of having valid and reliable diagnostic categories for use in making clinical judgments and as a focus for care planning is discussed. A cycle of development is outlined in three phases: diagnostic concept identification, concept analysis‐model development, and construction/reconstruction of diagnostic categories. It is suggested that a useful category captures the conceptual understanding and state of knowledge development about a phenomena in its (a) name, (b) definition, and (c) cluster of defining characteristics.

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“…(Blake 1965;Durant and Prince 1966;Kritek 1978;Henderson 1978) Classification schema have been developed (Gebbie and Lavin 1974).…”

Section: Nursing Diagnosis/patients' Need For Helpmentioning

confidence: 99%