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A descriptive analysis of experienced nurses' clinical reasoning during a planning task
Author(s) -
Grobe Susan J.,
Drew Judith A.,
Fonteyn Marsha E.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770140409
Subject(s) - unison , think aloud protocol , protocol analysis , nursing care plan , psychological intervention , protocol (science) , plan (archaeology) , nursing interventions classification , nursing , task (project management) , nursing process , psychology , process (computing) , nursing care , medical education , medicine , computer science , alternative medicine , physics , management , archaeology , pathology , human–computer interaction , usability , acoustics , economics , history , operating system , cognitive science
A Think Aloud (TA) method was employed to collect verbal data from seven clinical nurses as they reviewed a written case study and formulated a plan of care. Protocol Analysis (PA) of the verbal data resulted in a visual representation of each subject's plan of care and provided information regarding the clinical data that subjects used to plan care. The results demonstrated that frequently problems and interventions were inextricably linked and considered in unison rather than during separate steps of a planning process. This finding has implications relative to the current practice within both nursing education and nursing service of focusing on problems and interventions separately when planning care.