The design and implementation of an Interactive Computerised Decision Support Framework (ICDSF) as a strategy to improve nursing students' clinical reasoning skills

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Hoffman, Kerry ^a   Dempsey, Jennifer ^a   Levett Jones, Tracy ^a   Noble, Danielle ^a   Hickey, Noelene ^a   Jeong, Sarah ^a   Hunter, Sharyn ^a   Norton, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical reasoning model; Computerised case studies; Constructivist learning; E Learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, NURSING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79960181342     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

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