Dependent on the regional scientific background, NMDS is used for the concept of a data structure or a list of nursing interventions being documented in a nursing documentation system.
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The Role of Government and its Influence on Nursing Systems by Means of the Definition of Nursing Minimum Data Sets (NMDS)
Bettina Staudinger (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), Herwig Ostermann (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), Magdalena Thöni (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), and Roland Staudinger (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch152
Abstract
Since the 1980’s, questions have been asked the world over about the efficiency and contribution of nursing in the hospital treatment of patients and nursing performance within the framework of nonhospital health care. The cause for these tendencies has many roots. For one, we can determine a push in professionalism through the increasing importance of nursing sciences on whole. The basic focus is on comparability, standardization (Johnson et al., 2005), and securing quality (ICN, 2003). Also, a significant part of nursing systems internationally are publicly financed and legally determined. This has the consequence that the political decision-makers, particularly in context with the financing and planning of nursing structures, have more of an interest in controlling the nursing systems and disposing of useable nursing data.