week 6

1. STANDARDIZED NURSING
LANGUAGE (SNL)
Julie Monfleury
NSG 5000
Nova Southeastern University
Dr. Deborah Fisher Terry
February 15, 2018

2. WHAT IS STANDARDIZED
NURSING LANGUAGE?
• Standardized Nursing Language is a current concept in the nursing profession which is the commonly
accepted terminology used widely by nurses to describe care given to patients.
• Currently, the American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes 12 SNLs and data set elements to
describe nursing care and the uniform collection of essential nursing information.

3. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SNL?
• A combination of education on the use of standardized nursing languages and standardized nursing
care plans can enhance documentation of care.
• There is a need for more research on the use of standardized nursing languages in developing nations.
• When nurses are familiar with and are educated on the use of nursing classifications in
documentation, client care that is unique to nursing can be better described and outcomes more clearly
communicated

4. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SNL?
• SNLs have implications for competency evaluation, reimbursement for services, and curriculum
design. They hold the potential to improve the quality of nursing care, guide policy, and assist nurses
in articulating how their actions contribute to positive health outcomes.

5. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SNL?
• Integrating these SNLs into EHRs is important because it ensures that nursing care data can be
captured, stored, retrieved, and transferred easily. In addition, it is an important strategy for the
effective management and measurement of the effects of nursing care by using a database within the
system because it is the most feasible method of obtaining information necessary for clinical data
collection while reducing the cost, effort, and time required for data collection.

6. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SNL?
• The low scoring of the PHNs on documentation of care using the Muller-Staub checklist at pretest
supported the findings of Ogunfowokan et al. (2013) that PHNs in Nigeria are not using the SNLs for
client care in the community setting.
• Most Nigerian clinical nurses have poor knowledge of the concept of nursing process, and that serves
as a hindrance to the effective use of the SNLs (Momoh & Chukwu, 2010.
• This study has demonstrated that education of nurses on the nursing process and the implementation
of SNLs through the SNCPs is a viable way to improve nurse skills in documentation of care.

7. REFERENCES
• American Nurses Association. (2007). ANA recognized terminologies and data element sets.
Retrieved August 5, 2009, from http:// nursingworld.org/npii/terminologies.htm
• Brokel, J., & Herdman, T. H. (2010c). NANDA-I classification and clinical use. Paper presented at the
Training of Trainers’Workshop of the First International Workshop and Conference of the NANDA-
International African Network-Nigeria Chapter, Ile Ife, Nigeria, March 2010
• Florin, J., Ehrenberg, A., & Ehnfors, M. (2005). Quality of nursing diagnoses: Evaluation of an
educational intervention. International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications, 16(2),
33–43
• Gusen, N. J., Goshit, J. D., Dauda, R., Williams, A. J., & Danye, R. (2017). Nurses’ Knowledge
Attitude and Practice of Standardized Nursing Language in PSSH, JOS. West African Journal Of
Nursing, 28(1), 21-31.