Nurses' decision-making in collecting information for the assessment of patients' nursing problems

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 186-196

  Junnola, Tarja ^a   Eriksson, Elina ^b   Salanterä, Sanna ^a   Lauri, Sirkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b LAUREA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Computer simulated case; Decision making; Knowledge base

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FINLAND; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TEACHING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FINLAND; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SIMULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0036516174     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2002.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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