Developing nursing students' decision making skills: Are early warning scoring systems helpful?

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-3

  McCallum, Jacqueline ^a   Duffy, Kathleen ^b   Hastie, Elizabeth ^a   Ness, Valerie ^a   Price, Lesley ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS LANARKSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Early warning scoring systems; Undergraduate nurses

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CLINICAL ALARMS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84871686673     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.09.011     Document Type: Note

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