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Nursing has been described in a variety of ways. By and large these definitions have focused on observable activities that nurses perform to help individuals and groups cope with conditions affecting their health. In an alternative to traditional task—based descriptions, nursing has been defined as “the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems” [1]. The diagnosis and treatment of human responses consists of information processing activities and the execution of nursing treatments. It is the information processing component that determines which nursing treatments will be offered; therefore, the activities, or work, of nurses can be viewed as information processing.
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Miller, E. (1998). A Conceptual Model of the Information Requirements of Nursing Organizations. In: Saba, V.K., Pocklington, D.B., Miller, K.P. (eds) Nursing and Computers. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2182-1_17
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