ANA Recognized Terminologies and Data Element Sets
Setting Where Developed
Data Element Sets
1. NMDS
Nursing Minimum Data Set
Currently Recognized
2. NMMDS
Nursing Management Minimum
Data Set
Currently Recognized
Interface Terminologies
3. CCC
Clinical Care Classification
Currently Recognized
Content Definition
All Nursing Clinical Data Elements Minimum set of items of
information with uniform
definitions and categories
concerning the specific
dimension of professional
nursing, which meets the
information needs of multiple
data users in the health care
system.
All Settings Nursing Administrative Data Elements Data variables categorized into
environment, nurse resources,
and financial resources that are
needed to inform the decision
making process of nurse
executives related to leading and
managing nursing services
delivery and care coordination.
Home Care Diagnoses, Interventions, and Terminology that identifies the
Outcomes discrete data elements of
nursing practice. Standardized
framework and coding structure
of diagnoses interventions, and
outcomes for assessing,
documenting, and classifying
care in all healthcare settings.

4. ICNP®
International Classification of
Nursing Practice
Currently Recognized
5. NANDA
NANDA International
Currently Recognized
6.NIC
Nursing Intervention Classification
Currently Recognized
Used to track and measure
patient/client care holistically
over time, across settings,
population groups, and
geographic locations.
All Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Combinatorial terminology for
Outcomes nursing practice that facilitates
cross-mapping of local terms and
existing vocabularies and
classifications. Includes Nursing
phenomena (nursing diagnoses),
Nursing actions, Nursing
outcomes.
All Nursing Diagnoses A nursing diagnoses classification
developed to describe the
important judgments nurses
make in providing nursing care
for individuals, families, groups,
and communities. These
judgments, or diagnoses, are the
basis for selection of nursing
outcomes and interventions. The
terminology is updated every
two years.
All Nursing Interventions A comprehensive, research-
based, standardized
classification of interventions
that nurses perform and use for
clinical documentation,
communication of care across
settings, integration of data
across systems and settings,

7. NOC
Nursing Outcome Classification
Currently Recognized
8. OMAHA SYSTEM
Omaha System
Currently Recognized
effectiveness research,
productivity measurement,
competency evaluation,
reimbursement, and curricular
design. An intervention is
defined as "any treatment, based
upon clinical judgment and
knowledge, that a nurse
performs to enhance
patient/client outcomes." NIC
includes interventions that
nurses do on behalf of patients,
both independent and
collaborative interventions, both
direct and indirect care.
All Nursing Outcomes A comprehensive, standardized
classification of patient/client
outcomes developed to evaluate
the effects of nursing
interventions. An outcome is a
measurable individual, family, or
community state, behavior or
perception that is measured
along a continuum and is
responsive to nursing
interventions.
Home Care, Public Diagnoses, Interventions, and Comprehensive practice and
Health, and Outcomes documentation tool that can be
Community used by multidisciplinary health
care practitioners in any setting
from the time of client admission
to discharge. Omaha System
includes an assessment

9. PCDS
Patient Care Data Set
Retired
10. PNDS
Perioperative Nursing Data Set
Currently Recognized
Multidisciplinary Terminologies
11. ABCCodes
ABC Codes
Currently Recognized
12. LOINC®
Logical Observation Identifiers
Names and Codes
Currently Recognized
component (Problem
Classification Scheme), an
intervention component
(Intervention Scheme), and an
outcomes component (Problem
Rating Scale for Outcomes)
Acute Care Diagnoses, Interventions, and *Includes terms and codes for
Outcomes patient problems, therapeutic
goals, and patient care orders.
Perioperative Diagnoses, Interventions and Describes perioperative nursing
Outcomes practice with a sub-set of terms
that specifically describe
perioperative nursing diagnoses,
nursing interventions, and
patient outcomes in surgical
settings from pre-admission until
discharge.
Nursing and Other Interventions Terminology that describes
alternative medicine, nursing
and other integrative healthcare
interventions. Includes type of
provider and recognized level of
licensed practitioner by state.
Nursing and Other Outcome and Assessments Set of universal names and ID
codes for identifying laboratory
and clinical test results which can
be used to describe laboratory
and clinical results when store in
computer databases or
transmitted in electronic
 messages. The clinical portion of
the LOINC database includes
entries for vital signs,
hemodynamics, intake/output,
EKG, obstetric ultrasound,
cardiac echo, urologic imaging,
gastroendoscopic procedures,
pulmonary ventilator
management, selected survey
instruments, and other clinical
observations.
13. SNOMED CT Nursing and Other Diagnoses, Interventions, and Core terminology that provides a
Systematic Nomenclature of Outcomes common language that enables a
Medicine Clinical Terms consistent way of capturing,
Currently Recognized sharing and aggregating health
data across specialties and sites
of care.

Updated May 11, 2006 http://www.nursingworld.org/npii/terminologies.htm

*Saba, Virgina and McCormick, Kathleen (2006). Essentials of Nursing Informatics. Philippines: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.