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Diagnostic reasoning among second‐year nursing students
Author(s) -
Cholowski Krystyna M,
Chan Lorna K S
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01832.x
Subject(s) - logical reasoning , set (abstract data type) , nursing diagnosis , nursing , task (project management) , quality (philosophy) , nursing outcomes classification , psychology , nurse education , medline , medicine , medical diagnosis , medical education , computer science , mathematics education , pathology , team nursing , epistemology , philosophy , management , economics , programming language , political science , law
This paper reports on a study investigating the relationship of nursing students’ approaches to learning and processing of information, science content knowledge, ability in interpreting and organizing clinical data (nursing assessment), and logical reasoning ability with the accuracy and quality of the nursing diagnosis made in a simulated diagnostic reasoning task One hundred and sixty‐rune second‐year pre‐service nursing students participated in the study Results of path analyses indicated a set of pathways from surface approach to low‐quality nursing diagnosis that reflected less competent diagnostic reasoning, and a second set from deep/achieving approach through content knowledge and logical reasoning to higher‐quality nursing diagnosis that reflected more competent diagnostic reasoning The implications of these findings for nurse education are discussed