NURS 658 Utilizing SNOWMED Discussion

NURS 658 Utilizing SNOWMED Discussion

Week 6
Utilizing SNOWMED CT Website Activity and Reflection

Visit the website: http://browser.ihtsdotools.org/ Click for more options

Click on Local Extensions/United States.

In the database browser, search for a disorder, organism,
procedure, or substance (e.g., naegleria > (disorder) > infection caused
by naegleria).

Discuss the following:

What was your search item? (1–2 sentences)

How many search results did you get?

What is the purpose of SNOMED CT?

Write all the structures of your search item (e.g.,
“infection caused by naegleria”). It may be easier to use Microsoft Word or
PowerPoint to draw this structure.

Compose a one-page paper in APA format, citing a minimum of
one scholarly resource.

Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal
articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and
informatics organizations, published within the last five years. A title page
is not necessary, but you do need to include a reference page.

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The International Classification for Nursing
Practice (ICNP), a product of the International
Council of Nurses (ICN), is an agreed
terminology, or dictionary of terms, that
enables nurses to describe and report their
practice in a systematic way. The resulting
information is used to support care and
effective decision-making, and to inform
nursing education and health policy.
SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), the
world’s most comprehensive multi-disciplinary
health terminology, is owned and maintained
by SNOMED International. It is intended for
use by all types of healthcare professionals,
including nurses. Robust systems and
processes within ICN and SNOMED
International assure the integrity of both
terminologies.
As ICNP is intended for use by and for nurses,
ICN has been able to focus attention on the
development of ICNP specifically for nursing
practice. This has resulted in a rich and
comprehensive resource that nurses can use
to describe and report in detail the things that
they see (diagnoses, e.g. nausea) and the
things that they do (interventions, e.g.
counselling). The potential benefits of a
consistent approach to capturing nursing data
are far-reaching. However, nurses do not
practice in isolation. They practice alongside
many other disciplines. One of the potential
risks of a specific nursing-focus is that nursing
will be somehow disconnected from a larger
health information landscape.