(ICN). Although the council propose a guideline for elaboration, they encourage and reinforce the use of various perspectives and processes in the development of subsets. Brazilian Nursing needs to propose a method and deepen refl ections on the use of terminological subsets of ICNP ® in the reality of the country. The development of subsets in Brazil is considered incipient and the proposed method needs to be used and deepened in order to spread the use of terminology through the application of subsets.
Although the treatment of venous ulcers requires a set of specific knowledge, non-specialist nurses are unaware of the appropriate therapy, which is a concern in the topical therapy for these skin lesions. This paper aims to present an expert system to support the nursing decision making process in the topical therapy of venous ulcers. It is a development research implemented in five stages: system modeling, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation from production rules, and system implementation and evaluation. The production rules are presented as well as some cases to simulate the expert system behavior, demonstrating the viability of its usage in nurse's practice. The system may support the decision making about the topical therapy of venous ulcers. However, ulcer evaluation should be correctly made, so that the system provides appropriate suggestions, allowing better organization and planning assistance.
, of which 154 were similar, 19 were more comprehensive, 50 were more restricted, and 51 were not in concordance. Conclusion: the use of standardized language can minimize the ambiguities and redundancies identifi ed in the mapping. The existence of terms not in concordance with the ICNP ® reinforces the need for constant updating of this classifi cation.
The terminology selected focused on the individual biopsychic nexus and the historic manifestation of this phenomenon was partially identified in terms that appear less frequently in these articles, thereby explaining the contradiction between the formal identification logic of such terminology and the dialectic logic that recognizes the historic reasons for, and dynamicity of, such phenomena.
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