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Nursing Minimum Data Set.
✔️ The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is a standardized classification system used to collect essential nursing data for clinical, administrative, and research purposes.
✔️ It defines the minimum core data elements needed to describe nursing care across all healthcare settings, promoting consistency in documentation and comparison of outcomes.
✔️ NMDS supports nursing informatics by integrating nursing data into broader health information systems, aiding policy development and evidence-based practice.
✔️ This system helps to quantify the impact of nursing interventions, improve resource utilization, and enhance quality assurance in patient care.
✔️ NMDS also plays a key role in healthcare reimbursement systems by ensuring that nursing services are captured and valued in billing and reporting processes.
Educational Insight:
The NMDS was developed by Werley and Lang in the 1980s to ensure nursing contributions were documented in a structured way within electronic health records. It serves as the foundation for other systems like the International Nursing Minimum Data Set (i-NMDS) and supports the evolution of nursing informatics globally.
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“B. New Medicine Detail Service”
⯈ This is not a recognized term in nursing or pharmacology; unrelated to clinical documentation systems.
“C. National Medicine Details Set”
⯈ Incorrect terminology; no such national database exists under this title in relation to nursing data.
“D. Nursing & Medicine Data Service”
⯈ This misrepresents the nursing-specific focus of the NMDS, which is not a combined nursing-medicine system.
This question is from ATI LPN Pharmacology Test 5 which contains 40 questions.
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