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The article discusses a survey focusing on the nurses' perception of the American Nurses Association (ANA)-recognized, standardized, nursing terminologies in the U.S. Topics discussed include the demographics of our respondents in the survey; the users' confidence in using the terminologies; and the effects of documenting with standardized nursing terminologies.

The article discusses a survey which addresses nurses attitudes and perceptions about standardized nursing terminologies completed by the authors in the fall of 2011. Topics discussed include the users opinions regarding the helpfulness of terminology in actual clinical practice, how a specific terminology was helpful to the participants and the development of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association - International to allow nurses identify and classify health problems within nursing.

The article presents a survey on the standardized nursing terminologies (SNTs) in the U.S. The survey gathers responses related to the educational and clinical experiences of nurses with the SNTs recognized American Nurses Association (ANA). It also looks into the comparison between direct care nursing and informatics nursing.

The article looks at the development in nursing informatics. Nursing informatics was previously defined as the application of computer technology to all fields of nursing, such as nursing services, nurse education, and nursing research. It is said that the threads important in nursing informatics are basic computer skills, informatics knowledge, and information literacy.

The article discusses a study which determined the experiences of registered nurses with, and attitudes toward the standardized nursing terminologies (SNT) which are recognized by the American Nurses Association. A big proportion of respondents reported that they had no experience with or knowledge of any SNT. SNTs that were the most familiar to the respondents are the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA), Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).

The article explores the advantages and disadvantages of electronic health records (EHR) in the U.S. Electronic record systems have an audit trail, which is required by the privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Under the provisions of HIPPA, people had the right to ask for an accounting of disclosures of medical information for a period of six years prior to the date of the request. However, the legislation remained unclear on defining the responsibilities of business associates.

The article addresses the introduction of informatics in the field of medicine. According to the author, utilization of informatics is frequently promoted as one of the measures to reduce medical errors. She believes that healthcare organizations have clearly understood the lines of power, authority and flow of information. She emphasizes the need for medical personnel to consider their values and habits in relation with the sharing information with patients.

The article focuses on the rising popularity of electronic personal health records (PHR) and the role of nurses in making PHR useful to consumers. The factors which contribute to the fact that less than 50% of the U.S. population can refer to one source for healthcare information are cited. The three types of PHR are discussed which include institution-centered PHR, self-maintained PHR, and a linked record that can import information from different sources. It stresses the need for nurses to be in the forefront of designing PHR for consumers.

The article looks at the implications of the advent of the electronic health record (EHR) for U.S. nurses. It predicts that sharing EHR between unrelated providers will lead to the creation of a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) and the RHIO will be combined until they are connected in a National Health Information Network (NHIN). In the author's view, the role of nursing in healthcare will remain invisible due to the exclusion of data they collected from records. She stresses the need to get nursing care data in an electronic format.