Exhibit C: ANA Recognition Six-Point Criteria Approved by the Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics
1. The terminology supports one or more components of the nursing process. 2. The rationale for development supports this terminology as a new terminology itself or with a
unique contribution to nursing/health care. 3. Characteristics of the terminology include:
Support of one or more of the nursing domains; Description of the data elements; Internal consistency; Testing of reliability, validity, sensitivity and specificity; Utility in practice showing scope of use and user population; and Coding using unique context-free identifier.
4. Characteristics of the terminology development and maintenance process include: The terminology’s intended use; The centricity of the content (patient, community, etc.); Research-based framework used for development; Open call for participation for initial and ongoing development; Systematic, defined ongoing process for development; Relevance to nursing care and nursing science; Collaborative partnerships; Documentation of history of decisions; Defined revision and version-control mechanisms; Defined maintenance program; and Long-term plans for sustainability.
5. Access and distribution mechanisms are defined. 6. Plans and strategies for future development are defined.
2013 through 2016 (annually). The University of Minnesota School of Nursing – Center for Nursing Informatics begins hosting the Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Research to Transform Health Care consensus conference. The conference’s main purpose is to create “a national action plan for implementing and using sharable and comparable nursing data for quality reporting and translational research.” At the 2014 conference, the National Action Plan for Sharable and Comparable Nursing Data for Transforming Health and Healthcare (National Action Plan) is created. The 2014 National Action Plan addresses the top four “challenges” that have the most impact on achieving a sharable and comparable nursing data system. Exhibit D provides a breakdown of the four “challenge” areas and the major tasks associated with each area.
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Exhibit D: 2014 National Action Plan Challenge Areas and Major Tasks