[ATIC. A nursing interface terminology. Part II]

This manuscript is the second part of a triad of papers introducing the philosophical and theoretical approaches that support the development and validation of a nursing interface terminology as a standard vocabulary designed to ease data entry into electronic health records, to produce information and to generate knowledge.

To present the philosophical and theoretical approaches considered in the development of a new nursing interface terminology called ATIC.

Review, analysis and discussion of the main philosophical orientations, high and mid-range theories and nursing scientific literature to develop an interpretative conceptualization of the metaparadigm concept "Individual".

The first part of this paper introduces ATIC and its foundation on pragmatism, holism, post-positivism and constructivism as major philosophical approaches. In this second part the construction of the concept "Individual" involves the integrality and the interaction among the three dimensions of the human being: "being physical", "being conscious" and "being autonomous".

ATIC terminology is rooted on an eclectic philosophical and theoretical foundation, allowing it to be used from different orientations within the totality paradigm.