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The suspiciousness factor: critical care nursing and forensics.
1Department of Adult and Gerontological Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
|January 26, 2000
Summary
Forensic nursing expertise is developed through understanding nursing intuition and suspicion. This perception guides rapid, patient-centered decision-making for expert nurses.
Area of Science:
- Forensic Nursing
- Nursing Science
- Expertise Development
Background:
- Understanding the foundational principles of nursing is crucial for developing specialized fields like forensic nursing.
- Expert nursing practice relies on various ways of knowing, including intuition.
- The role of suspicion in clinical judgment is often underestimated but vital.
Purpose of the Study:
- To delineate the position of forensic nursing within the broader nursing discipline.
- To explore the concept of intuition in nursing practice, linking it to expert performance.
- To examine the relationship between suspicion and intuition in clinical decision-making.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of nursing theory, focusing on ways of knowing.
- Exploration of expert nursing practice models.
- Literature review on intuition and suspicion in healthcare.
Main Results:
- Intuition is a key component of expert nursing practice, often manifesting as suspicion.
- Suspicion in nursing is a rapid, learned, patient-focused perception.
- Developing forensic nursing expertise involves honing intuitive skills and increasing suspicion.
Conclusions:
- Forensic nursing is an integral part of nursing that leverages expert intuition.
- Cultivating suspicion is essential for advancing forensic nursing practice and patient care.
- Intuition, framed as suspicion, enables decisive and effective nursing actions.