The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is a classification system which allows for the standardized collection of essential nursing data. The collected data are meant to provide an accurate description of the nursing process

Nursing process

The nursing process is a modified scientific method. Nursing practise was first described as a four stage nursing process by Ida Jean Orlando in 1958,. It should not be confused with nursing theories or Health informatics...

 used when providing nursing care. The NMDS allow for the analysis and comparison of nursing data across populations, settings, geographic areas, and time.

See also

• Effective therapeutic regimen management
  Effective therapeutic regimen management
  Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management is a NANDA approved nursing diagnosis which is defined as "A pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a program for treatment of illness and its sequelae that is sufficient for meeting health-related goals and can be...
  
  
• Nursing diagnosis
  Nursing diagnosis
  A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgement about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes...
  
  
• NANDA
  NANDA
  NANDA International is a professional organization of nurses standardized nursing terminology that was officially founded in 1982 and develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses...
  
  
• Nursing care plan
  Nursing care plan
  A nursing care plan outlines the nursing care to be provided to an individual/family/community. It is a set of actions the nurse will implement to resolve/support nursing diagnoses identified by nursing assessment. The creation of the plan is an intermediate stage of the nursing process...
  
  
• Nursing Outcomes Classification
  Nursing Outcomes Classification
  The Nursing Outcomes Classification is a classification system which describes patient outcomes sensitive to nursing intervention. The NOC is a system to evaluate the effects of nursing care as a part of the nursing process...
  
   (NOC)
• Nursing Interventions Classification
  Nursing Interventions Classification
  The Nursing Interventions Classification is a care classification system which describes the activities that nurses perform as a part of the planning phase of the nursing process associate with the creation of a nursing care plan. The NIC consists of a standardized list which contains 433...
  
   (NIC)
• Omaha System
  Omaha System
  The Omaha System is a standardized health care terminology consisting of an assessment component , an intervention component , and an outcomes component...
  
  

External links

• Nursing Minimum Data Set for School Nursing Practice