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Invisibility to Visibility: Capturing Essential Nursing Information

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Managing vast amounts of diverse information necessitates that nurses synthesize data from diverse sources into a coherent profile of each patient and generate an effective plan of care to achieve the desired health outcomes. This chapter explores how the evolution of minimum health data sets, identification of essential nursing data elements, and controlled clinical vocabularies contribute to the identification of critical nursing information and the documentation of nursing contributions to healthcare.

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Hannah, K.J., Kennedy, M.A.J. (2010). Invisibility to Visibility: Capturing Essential Nursing Information. In: Ball, M., et al. Nursing Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-278-0_22

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