Primary prevention of agricultural injuries. Use of standardized nursing diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes.

1. The use of standardized nursing language is important to the advancement of nursing knowledge and practice. The standardization of nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes provides a means for collecting and analyzing large clinical databases. 2. The occupational health nurse has a clear role in developing health and safety programs. Standardized language using North American Nursing Diagnosis Association diagnoses, nursing outcomes classification, and nursing intervention classification can be incorporated into these programs. 3. The use of standardized taxonomies in the primary prevention of cumulative trauma disorders demonstrates how these systems are integrated into the documentation of the nursing process in a nursing care plan.