What Did You Really Mean By That?
Data Sets: A Movement In Healthcare to All Speak the Same Language
Patient Care Data Set (PCDS) & Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS) are attempts used to standardize the nursing language. Based on recent readings in relation to this topic, the original Patient Care Data Set, recognized in 1998 by the American Nursing Association (ANA) as the sixth nursing classification system was birthed from NANDA (Helmlinger, 1998). This system is no longer widely accepted as the PNDS. The PNDS, recognized by the ANA in 1999, is a nursing language that provides standardized terminology to support perioperative nursing practice. Emerging issues and changes in practice associated with the PNDS standardized terminology require ongoing maintenance and periodic in-depth review of its content (Peterson, C., & Kleiner, C., 2011). The most recent literature found in relation to PCDS dates back to its original evolution year of 1998.
Standardized nursing language is of great focus, especially with the increased implementation of the EMR/EHR. Just recently through switching employers that I came across a labeling dilemma. At the previous facility worked all DNR Code patients wore red name bands that symbolized their code status and to alert one to "STOP" and not do CPR. However, in the new facility Full Code patients wore red name bands to Alert one to do CPR. If a universal coding system was in place this would prevent someone working from another facility or through agency to misinterpret the color codes and possibly fail to perform CPR or complete CPR against a patient's wishes.
References
Helmlinger, C. (1998). ANA Resources. The American Journal of Nursing, 98(12), 63–63. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3471731
Petersen, C., & Kleiner, C. (2011). Evolution and revision of the perioperative nursing data set. AORN Journal, 93(1), 127-132. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2010.07.015
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