Discuss the focus of development and adoption of standard clinical terminology and how this information may be of value to an informatics nurse.

Explore the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO).
October 1, 2018
In a formal paper of 1,000-1,250 words you will discuss the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”
October 1, 2018

Discuss the focus of development and adoption of standard clinical terminology and how this information may be of value to an informatics nurse.

Discuss nursing documentation as it relates to patient discharge abstracts and the identification of nursing sensitive outcomes. Explore the process for developing standards and the role of the American Nurses Association in promoting standardized terminologies. What are some of the issues surrounding the use of standardized terminologies? What are some of the benefits? Explore the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO).Discuss the focus of development and adoption of standard clinical terminology and how this information may be of value to an informatics nurse.