Determinants of the Accuracy of Nursing Diagnoses: Influence of Ready Knowledge, Knowledge Sources, Disposition Toward Critical Thinking, and Reasoning Skills

Journal of Professional Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-241

  Paans, Wolter ^a,b   Sermeus, Walter ^b   Nieweg, Roos ^a   van der Schans, Cees ^a  

^a HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Nursing diagnoses; Reasoning skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; THINKING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; STUDENTS, NURSING; THINKING;

EID: 77954701380     PISSN: 87557223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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