Applying Standardized Terminologies in Practice

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Applying Standardized Terminologies in Practice

Standardized nursing terminologies ensure that all nurses adhere to an identical approach in attending to specific clinical situation. They ensure that all clinicians are equally informed and are likely to use the same approach to solve a specific problem. NANDA, NIC, and NOC are core elements in nursing practice and provide for standardized approach in patient diagnosis. These elements provide a set of guidelines and definitions necessary for a practitioner to arrive at desired patient outcome. The elements are widely accepted and are used internationally by practitioners in care facilities, ambulatory and outpatient facilities as well as on personal patients (Ackley & Ladwig, 2013, p. 743). This paper will describe the application of elements of NANDA, NIC, and NOC in a case scenario for congestive heart failure (CHF) through clearly establishing how data, information, practitioner’s knowledge and wisdom contributed to arriving at a specific conclusion.

Application of NANDA, NIC, and NOC in CHF Diagnosis

            The number of elderly population in developed nations especially the U.S. has been increasing constantly over the last few decades. Connectively, the rate of congestive heart failure (CHF) disease occurrence has been increasing and this has prompted to adoption of specific standards to improve the outcome of patients. Terminologies of standardized nursing care have been adopted by practitioners to promote accuracy in their plans of care in particular care scenario as well as enhancing positive patient outcome. Standardized concepts of nursing diagnosis classifications (NANDA), the classification of outcomes of nurses (NOC) as well as the classification nursing interventions (NIC) provides an identical approach for compiling diagnosis, choosing intervention procedures, and documenting the outcome of the nursing processes on the patients. These standardized terms enable the nurses to use identical language in describing a particular care situation hence promoting effective and efficient communication in the care facility…”