Nurses' risk assessment judgements: A confidence calibration study

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2751-2760

  Yang, Huiqin ^a   Thompson, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical judgement; Confidence calibration; Critical event risk assessment; Nursing; Over confidence; Under confidence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSES; NURSING RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 79551485969     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05437.x     Document Type: Article

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