Here are a few concepts that include the term 'patient' in my preliminary reference set on the nursing process:

• patient education (procedure)

• •  Age-specific patient education (procedure)

    •       Patient education based on age and identified needs (procedure)

  •       Chiropractic patient education (procedure)

  •       Education about rights as patient (procedure)

  •       Patient education based on identified need (procedure)

    •       Educating patient in reason for their specific care (procedure)

    •       Patient education based on age and identified needs (procedure)

  •       Patient education regarding Patient Bill of Rights (procedure

  • "Procedures relating to mobility (procedure)" → a lot of children concepts contain the term 'patient' from this parent concept. 

  • "bathing patient" + children

  • "weighing patient"

  • "patient feeding technique assessment"

  • "ambulating patient"

'Checking patient identity (procedure)': The subject of this expression is 'patient identity', so leaving the word 'patient' out would feel a little weird.

For my Reference Set, the word 'patient' is included in +- 5% of the concepts in the Reference Set (53 concepts). 

Hi @Cathy Richardson ,

another question on the inactivation of the concepts including 'patient'. Sometimes, the 'patient' is referred to as an 'elder' a 'child' or an 'infant' or ... Examples which I use in my nursing reference set are the following:

If the rules are applied to these concepts, I think they are out of scope? So they will remain unaltered? Or would they transfer to situation/findings with explicit context? I'm not sure. This question popped into my head when processing my interviews with the midwives and pediatric nurses. 

Kind regards,

Jerno Thys

Hi @Jerno Thys (Unlicensed) ,

The scope of work is purely on the term 'patient' not on the terms child, infant or elder, so yes they are out of scope.

Kind regards,

Cathy