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H H Werley

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PubMed1991

The Nursing Minimum Data Set: abstraction tool for standardized, comparable, essential data.

The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) represents the first attempt to standardize the collection of essential nursing data. These minimum core data, used on a regular basis by the majority of nurses in the delivery of care across settings, can provide an accurate description of nursing diagnoses, nursing care, and nursing resources used. Collected on an ongoing basis, a standardized nursing data base will enable nurses to compare data across populations, settings, geographic areas, and time. Public health nurses will be able to evaluate and compare services. The purpose of this article is to discuss briefly the following aspects of the NMDS: background including definition, purposes, and elements; availability and reliability of the data; benefits; implications of the NMDS with emphasis on nursing research; and health policy decision making.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed1977

Social work attitudes toward birth control for teenagers.

The current high level of teenage sexual activity has important consequences for the psychological and social well-being of both individuals and the community. Because social workers often have professional contact with teenagers who are in need of contraceptive services, a nationwide survey was conducted to ascertain the attitudes of social work faculty and students toward birth control for teenagers. Both students and faculty were found to have positive attitudes. They are willing to provide service in this area within the bounds suggested by a realistic assessment of their preparation for this field of activity.

Adolescent↗
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Use of the nursing minimum data set.

The purpose of this study was to obtain information about usage of the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Forty-six individuals (44%) who requested the NMDS Data Collection Manual responded to a mailed questionnaire. Most respondents reported actually using the Manual to educate other nurses or to structure nursing documentation. More than one third of the respondents used all of the elements within the NMDS, but the majority used, or intended to use, the elements in the Nursing Care category. The majority of NMDS elements that were being used, or intended to be used, were available from handwritten patient records. The NMDS elements had been recorded on an ongoing basis by 86% of the respondents, but only 31% could retrieve readily all of the elements. Implications for access to comparable, minimum nursing care and resources data are discussed.

Databases, Factual↗
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Research Q and A.

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Nursing↗
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Watch your language.

Articles, papers, and other documents are the forms given to the substance of nursing knowledge. Here are some common obstacles to clear communication in written scholarship, along with some advice on how to avoid them.

Humans↗