1. A user interface system for presenting patient medical problem information to a user, comprising: a search processor for automatically searching a knowledge base of information associating a plurality of different medical problems with corresponding attributes to determine at least one additional candidate nursing problem associated with an existing assigned medical problem of a particular patient and to determine an attribute indicating a particular characteristic of a particular nursing problem comprising at least one of focus, judgment, bearer, body site, severity, level of certainty, priority and status, in response to an existing assigned problem of said particular patient; and a display processor for initiating generation of data representing a single display image, said display image including, a first image area for including data indicating candidate nursing problems and associated attributes and a second image area for including data representing existing assigned medical problems of said particular patient including said existing assigned medical problem and enabling a user to select a nursing problem for transfer from said first image area to said second image area.