Perspective: Implementation of Nursing Language in Long-Term Care and Nursing Education

PURPOSE.  This article describes one nurse's experiences of returning to school after a 10-year absence, her introduction to nursing theory and terminology, and her subsequent implementation of nursing language in a long-term care setting and later experiences in teaching nursing language to students.
DATA SOURCES.  A 21-year career as a long-term care nurse coincided with the evolution of the new organization North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International, and she found herself in a position to implement nursing diagnosis in the long-term care setting. Practice experiences and pertinent nursing references and resources were used in clinical implementation and in teaching nursing students.
DATA SYNTHESIS.  The author reviewed the implementation and teaching of nursing language from a personal historical perspective.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE.  The author's experiences and perspectives on implementation of nursing language in clinical practice and in teaching provide information and a perspective for nurses and students involved in these processes.     

Perspective: Implementation of Nursing Language in Long‐Term Care and Nursing Education

PURPOSE. This article describes one nurse's experiences of returning to school after a 10‐year absence, her introduction to nursing theory and terminology, and her subsequent implementation of nursing language in a long‐term care setting and later experiences in teaching nursing language to students. DATA SOURCES. A 21‐year career as a long‐term care nurse coincided with the evolution of the new organization North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International, and she found herself in a position to implement nursing diagnosis in the long‐term care setting. Practice experiences and pertinent nursing references and resources were used in clinical implementation and in teaching nursing students. DATA SYNTHESIS. The author reviewed the implementation and teaching of nursing language from a personal historical perspective. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE. The author's experiences and perspectives on implementation of nursing language in clinical practice and in teaching provide information and a perspective for nurses and students involved in these processes.     

Naming Nursing: Evidence‐Based Nursinga

Viewpoint provides a forum for scholarly discussion about the theoretical, philosophical, and practical issues related to nursing language and classification systems. The sometimes controversial views are intended to stimulate reader comments and perspectives. We welcome brief, informal responses to published viewpoints. If you have a viewpoint you want to submit or if you want to discuss it beforehand, contact the column editor: judithwilkins@att.net     

Death From a Spiritual Perspective

Nursing is multidimensional, interactive, interdisciplinary, and complex. Almost anything that can be said about nursing can be said another way. Some things worth being said and heard will not follow the norms of journal presentation. A forum accommodates the emerging voice, the new format, the innovative approach. Nursing Forum , in an effort to honor the "independent voice" in nursing, presents here the voice who elects to enter the dialogue, but who does so "in another way."     

International Nursing Language News

With this issue we inaugurate the first column on international nursing language news. The focus of the four newly appointed associate editors is to keep you informed on nursing diagnosis activities beyond NANDA.