NANDA International
For over 40 years, the organization NANDA International (NANDA-I) has been committed to providing and continuously developing a standardized taxonomy based on nursing diagnoses worldwide. The NANDA International nursing classification describes nursing situations based on selected nursing diagnoses.
Nursing diagnoses are considered the key to evidence-based, professional nursing care. They are an effective tool for meeting patients' needs and requirements and reliably determining the need for care. In the age of digital health records, standardized nursing diagnoses such as the NANDA-I taxonomy offer the possibility of collecting nursing data so that it can be evaluated and used for audits.
Why Should You Use Nursing Terminology?
The core competencies and fundamentals of the nursing process and nursing diagnosis are not only an important part of generalist nursing training, but also have a high priority in the nursing work environment. In this way, nursing terminology supports a targeted workflow and nursing history. In addition, the results of the nursing process are documented in the nursing care plan using nursing terminology, thereby organizing the work of the nursing team.
Benefits of a standardized and authoritative nursing terminology
Licensing for Software Providers or End Users
Would you like to work with NANDA-I in your facility and integrate nursing terminology into your HIS, for example? Then please contact us at any time at datenbank@recom.eu. Thieme RECOM acts as the official license holder in German-speaking countries and grants usage licenses accordingly.
There are two different licensing models. On the one hand, for software companies as partners who want to integrate NANDA-I into their product, and on the other hand, for end users, such as hospitals or individual institutions.
Integration
Are you interested in integrating NANDA-I as a database with or without time values into your HIS/IT infrastructure? Depending on which HIS your institution uses, either interfaces for integration via one of our software partners are already available, or we will examine how smooth integration can be achieved.
Please contact us directly using the contact form or at datenbank@recom.eu.
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FAQ
The nursing terminology/classification of NANDA International (NANDA-I) includes nursing diagnoses that are structured according to domains and classes, each of which is further specified by defining characteristics, influencing factors or risk factors, as well as risk populations and associated conditions.
The use of standardized nursing terminology (classification) for nursing documentation (planned and performed nursing care) serves to ensure patient safety and the quality of the nursing care provided when nursing diagnoses have been selected for an individual patient following a diagnostic decision-making process. When nursing diagnoses are used in an electronic health record (EHR), the administrative effort required for documentation can be significantly reduced. Benefit: you no longer have to rack your brains over the right wording, and unnecessary errors are reduced. The pre-written, scientifically based text elements ensure clear communication between everyone involved in the nursing process and prevent ambiguities and misunderstandings. Exciting side effect: documentation using standardized nursing terminology also generates high-quality, analyzable data.
In addition to the well-known NANDA-I book editions, which are published every three years, NANDA-I is also available as a database in SQL format or as CSV files for practical use in outpatient/mobile care, nursing homes, or hospitals.
Thieme RECOM offers the NANDA-I nursing terminology/classification in German, French and Italian. For other languages, please contact us at datenbank@recom.eu.
NANDA-I, or NANDA International, is a membership-based organization whose goal is to develop and periodically publish a standardized terminology based on evidence-based nursing diagnoses. The main work, “NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses,” published every three years, covers the current state of development of nursing diagnoses according to NANDA-I. New diagnoses can be submitted by any member and refined in collaboration with the NANDA-I Diagnosis Development Committee until they are ready for publication.
The members of NANDA-I now come from all over the world and are organized into many country-specific network groups, which is why the organization changed its name to NANDA International in 2002. (The former name referred to the acronym “North American Nursing Diagnosis Association” and is no longer used.)
The NANDA-I nursing diagnoses are translated into over 20 languages in each publication cycle and are therefore distributed worldwide.
