Strategic plan for promoting ICNP in Romania

Preparing Romanian nursing community for the newcoming health information systems is not an easy task and has to start with the structuring of nursing information. That means that the free text of nursing documentation has to be mould, in a first stage, into a nursing language. Then, using a classification system, it will be possible for it to be captured in an electronic health record. This paper is presenting the strategy proposed by the Working Group for Nursing Informatics of the Romanian Medical Informatics Society for developing the Romanian version of the International Classification for Nursing Practice(ICNP) and the dissemination actions associated.