Information model for learning nursing terminology.

Area of Science:

• Nursing Informatics
• Health Information Management
• Medical Terminology

Background:

• Standardized terminologies enhance healthcare information quality and patient care.
• The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) is a unified nursing language system for documenting diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

• To present an information model integrating ICNP with other ontologies.
• To develop an application for teaching nursing students ICNP use in care planning.

Main Methods:

• Developed an information model integrating ICNP, catalog, patient journal, and task set ontologies.
• Created a learning application presenting patient scenarios and prompting for nursing statements (diagnoses, goals, interventions).

Main Results:

• The application allows students to select premade ICNP-based solutions or construct statements directly from ICNP terms.
• The model facilitates structured documentation and learning of nursing care planning.

Conclusions:

• The developed model and application effectively teach nursing students to utilize ICNP for comprehensive nursing care planning.
• This approach supports improved nursing documentation and information quality.