The effect of clinical experience, judgment task difficulty and time pressure on nurses' confidence calibration in a high fidelity clinical simulation

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Huiqin ^a   Thompson, Carl ^a   Bland, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical experience; Clinical judgment; Confidence calibration; Hard easy effect; High fidelity clinical simulation; Overconfidence; Time pressure; Underconfidence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84866847774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-113     Document Type: Article

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