2002 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 59-70
The rapid development of the recent information technology promotes actuality possibility of information sharing between medical workers with electric patient record system, and the standardization of the nursing terminology becomes a problem of the urgency. However, what does not exist still is true for terminology system recognized as the common language, which describes the nursing practice. Since it is different by medical system and culture of this country for needs for the nursing, the international standardization work is not easy. And, it is similar in this country. In this study, action name and action content were investigated for the purpose of the standardization of nursing action name used in nursing practice of our country, and both correspondence situations were analyzed. To begin with, the research method was developed, and the data was collected using the technique, and the analysis was carried out. As the result, rate of correspondence between action name and action content was quantitatively shown (adult nursing 86%, pediatric nursing 77%, psychiatric nursing 81%, home health nursing 80%, maternity nursing 41%).
