Standardized Languages Provide a Mechanism to Ensure Common Meanings to Terms

question 10

Multiple Choice

Standardized languages provide a mechanism to ensure common meanings to terms, facilitate data collection, and aid research. Which of the following languages includes all nursing specialties and demonstrates the ability to encompass other standardized nursing languages?

• A)ICNP
• B)NANDA
• C)NIC
• D)NOC

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Definitions:

Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness is a psychological condition where an individual learns to believe they are powerless to change a negative situation, even when opportunities to do so exist.

Controllability

The degree to which an individual can influence or manage the outcomes or conditions in their life or environment.

Predictability

The extent to which future events are predictable based on present or past information.

Conservation

In psychology, the concept that a child recognizes that quantity does not change with physical rearrangement; in environmental science, the protection of natural resources.