Do heart failure specialist nurses think differently when faced with 'hard' or 'easy' decisions: A judgement analysis

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2174-2184

  Thompson, Carl ^a   Spilsbury, Karen ^a   Dowding, Dawn ^a   Pattenden, Jill ^a   Brownlow, Ros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiology; Decision making; Judgement analysis; Nurses; Nursing; Specialist nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG MONITORING; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING DISCIPLINE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PROCESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG MONITORING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PROCESS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPECIALTIES, NURSING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 47349126434     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02303.x     Document Type: Article

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