Decision Making in Nursing Practice: A Concept Analysis

Nursing Forum

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 40-48

  Johansen, Mary L ^a   O'Brien, Janice L ^b  

^a School of Nursing   (United States)

^b WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical judgment; Decision making; Intuition; Knowledge and experience

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTICS; HUMAN; NURSING PROCESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THINKING;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING PROCESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING;

EID: 84922575699     PISSN: 00296473     EISSN: 17446198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nuf.12119     Document Type: Article

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