Diagnostic process and decision making in nursing: A literature review

• Published in: Journal of professional nursing Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 154 - 163
• Main Authors: Hamers, J.P.H., Huijer^Abu-Saad, H., Halfens, R.J.G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Elsevier Inc 1994; Saunders
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Clinical Competence; Clinical Diagnosis; Clinical Experience; Cognitive Processes; Cues; Decision Making; Decision Support Techniques; Expertise; Health and social institutions; Health participants; Humans; Judgment; Medical sciences; Mental Processes; Models, Nursing; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing Evaluation Research; Nursing Process; Problem Solving; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Reproducibility of Results; Diagnostic reasoning; Nursing; Decision making; Clinical judgment; Information processing; Human; Health staff; Reasoning; Review; Diagnosis; Public health; Nurse

In clinical practice professional nurses appear to make different judgments regarding particular nursing situations. The purpose of this literature review is to gain insight into the way nurses make decisions related to nursing diagnoses and interventions. Literature on decision making can be divide...