Recognition of Nursing's contribution to life quality of patients

"Maria Isabel Razquin, Director of the University where all the pre and post registration nursing education is undertaken and the medical staff trained, gave a key note speech. ... She spoke of the conceptual discipline in nursing, and of how the market economy was affecting health services. This theme was extended into world health information and the storage of data; the development of nursing informatics and how nursing practice should lead to validating and developing minimum datasets using an understandable language. She then alluded to NANDA and the 4 thesaurus' which holds medical and nursing terms that can be cross referenced with new information and knowledge. All the terms we commonly use in the UK were mentioned: multi-disciplinary, updated, accurate, efficient and research and knowledge based.

She went on to say that it has been difficult to quantify the life quality of a patient; it has been tried and it has failed, not showing the significance of nursing. Conceptualisation is a foundation for nursing and it was suggested it could be used with research, with the scientific focus and practical sources being the future body of knowledge. Nurses, she said, should have a clear identity of the care given in multidisciplinary teams, while combining facts and data with nurse training, recognised nursing disciplines and leaders of research would enable competence in complicated fields. Skilful and relevant collection of data, she concluded, would facilitate education and change management training for encompassing computerising with conceptualisation." p.19. 

Sampson, H.E. (2000). International Symposium of Nursing Diagnosis - Pamplona, Spain - May 2000. ITIN, British Computer Society, Nursing Specialist Group. Volume 12: Issue 3. Sept. 2000. pp.19-21. ISSN 0956-5159.

NANDA - https://nanda.org/

ITIN - Information Technology in Nursing

An 'updated' title(?):

"Recognition of Nursing's contribution to Sustain and Enhance the People's Life Chances."