Information is essential for nursing care because nurses in subsidizing clinical decision making for the resolution and reduction of health problems. This review integrative study identified publications in national and international journals the major data standards, terminologies and classification systems used in health care and nursing. The research was conducted on MEDLINE, CINAHL and SCIELO using the keywords: Information Systems, Nursing Informatics, Medical Informatics, Computerized Medical Records Systems, Terminology and Nomenclature of Medicine Systematized. It was selected 91 articles which were analyzed in two empirical categories: "data standards for health care and nursing" and "terminologies and classification systems in nursing" From the various data standards, terminologies and classification systems, it is important that nursing take ownership of them aiming to improve and renew the quality of care.