Nursing Terminologies Have Evolved Significantly Over the Past Several Decades

question 18

Multiple Choice

Nursing terminologies have evolved significantly over the past several decades in line with best practices in terminology work. The _________ approach is compositional in nature and provides a partial representation of the entities within a domain and the relationships that hold between them. The evolution of this approach to terminology standardization has been facilitated by advances in knowledge representation.

• A) enumerative
• B) ontological
• C) subsumption
• D) translational

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Definitions:

Unconscious Information Processing

The handling and reaction to information by the brain without conscious awareness.

Visual Cortex

The part of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing visual information.

Hypnagogic Sensations

Experiences that occur at the onset of sleep, characterized by vivid sensory phenomena such as seeing shapes, hearing noises, or feeling as if falling.

Sleep Spindles

Sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity visible on an EEG that occur during stage 2 of NREM sleep, associated with memory consolidation and synaptic plasticity.