Regulation or deregulation is becoming an increasingly important issue in society. Health care is one target in the debate about the nature, amount and locus of control necessary to ensure safe health services to all. As professionals responsible for providing a part of the essential health services, nurses are caught up in the movement. Therefore nursing has an obligation to understand and participate in the development, administration and monitoring of all types of regulatory controls that touch on nursing education and practice, and the healthcare services themselves.

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Toward an International Classification for Nursing Practice: a literature review & survey.

In 1991 the International Council of Nurses (ICN) initiated a long-term project to develop an International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP). To identify existing classifications and nomenclatures of nursing, a literature search and survey of national nurses' associations and individuals involved in classification across the world were conducted, in addition to a pilot search for articles describing nursing nomenclatures and classifications in countries other than the US and Canada, the latter having provided most of the examples in the original ICNP proposals. Three sources of literature were examined: international conference proceedings, Med-Line and Exerpta Medica.

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International regulation today.

How much, what kind and who should control professional regulation and the questions being debated in many countries. To understand the nature, implications and impact of the regulatory processes used in their country, nurses must assist in: 1) developing the regulatory controls that affect professional education, practice and research; and 2) ensuring that nursing is a major player in the administrative and monitoring processes used to control nursing.

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