ISO 18104:2023

This document specifies the characteristics of categorial structures, representing nursing practice. The overall aim of this document is to support interoperability in the exchange of meaningful information between information systems in respect of nursing diagnoses, nursing actions and nurse sensitive outcomes. Categorial structures for nursing diagnoses, nursing actions, nurse sensitive outcomes and associated categories support interoperability by providing common frameworks with which to

establish relationships between terminology models, information models, including archetypes, and ontologies in the nursing domain.^{[14][15][16][45]}

There is early evidence that the categorial structures can be used as a framework for analysing nursing practice,^[17] for developing nursing content of electronic record systems,^[18][19] document the value of nursing services provided and to make nursing’s contribution visible^{[16][36][47][50]}.