Certainty, Leaps of Faith, and Tradition: Rethinking Clinical Interventions

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 52-61

  Dzurec, Laura Cox ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Logic; Reasoning; Tradition

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LOGIC; NURSING PROCESS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LOGIC; NURSING PROCESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032251103     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-199812000-00006     Document Type: Article

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