Features of standardized nursing terminology sets in Japan.

UNLABELLED: This paper reports the features and relationships between standardizes nursing terminology sets used in Japan. First, we analyzed the common parts in five standardized nursing terminology sets: the Japan Nursing Practice Standard Master (JNPSM) that includes the names of nursing activities and is built by the Medical Information Center Development Center (MEDIS-DC); the labels of the Japan Classification of Nursing Practice (JCNP), built by the term advisory committee in the Japan Academy of Nursing Science; the labels of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) translated to Japanese; the labels, domain names, and class names of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Nursing Diagnoses 2003-2004 translated to Japanese; and the terms included in the labels of Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) translated to Japanese. Then we compared them with terms in a thesaurus dictionary, the Bunrui Goihyo, that contains general Japanese words and is built by the National Institute for Japanese Language. THE RESULTS: 1) the level of interchangeability between four standardized nursing terminology sets is quite low; 2) abbreviations and katakana words are frequently used to express nursing activities; 3) general Japanese words are usually used to express the status or situation of patients.

Nursing spoken corpora for understanding nursing assignments.

We have built Spoken Corpora using voice data that were obtained by monitored and recorded daily nursing assignments in hospitals. The devices, we have developed are able to monitor daily nursing assignments and record multimedia data, such as video, voice, pedometer, acceleration, and. so on. Focusing on voice data, we have built two types of corpora one for analyzing nursing tasks and the other for collecting nursing terms. This work represents the first trail in Japan to develop such special devices and to make corpora for understanding nursing assignments. In this paper, we report our experiments done in "E-nightingale Project," present an effective task analysis of nursing activities, and describe results of an analysis of nursing terms for developing "Automatic Time Study Survey System."