As announced at the 1999 AORN Congr...

As announced at the 1999 AORN Congres in San Francisco, AORN has received written notification that the AORN Perioperative Nursing Data wager has been officially recognized at the American Nurses Association (ANA) "as a data put useful for the practice of nursing." The ANA Committee onward Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure praiseed AORN for the organization's work and its contributions to nursing and nursing classifications.

Effective immediately, all documents related to the AORN Perioperative Nursing Data locate will acknowledge this recognition through ANA. This highly respected recognition and designation indicates that AORN's language has met stringent criteria stake forth by the ANA Committee forward Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure. These criteria were established to render certain that vocabularies and classification schemes for clinical practice

* are clinically useful, reliable, and valid;

* have a coherent taxonomic structure;

* have a unique coding system; and

* are clear and precise.

This recognition also means that "as ANA engages in lobbying efforts, health policy progression in a continuously ascending gradation or other related terminology efforts the Perioperative Nursing Data fix will be included." The ANA will notify the National Library of Medicine about this recognition in such a manner they can allocate resources to include the classification in the Unified Medical Library System

The Perioperative Nursing Data station reflects the expertise of many AORN members. As a clinically validated standardized language, it is a beginning point to help perioperative RN document the care they provide and their contributions. Recognition of the language is just the same step in this process. Watch for articles in following issues of the AORN Journal related to the Periperative Nursing Data Set

J J Warren, chair, ANA Committee upon Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure, personal communication with s C Beyea, Washington, DC, 16 April 1999

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