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Nursing experience and preference for intuition in decision making.
Jean E Pretz1, Victoria N Folse
1Department of Psychology, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA. pretzj@etown.edu
Journal of Clinical Nursing
|May 20, 2011
Summary
Nursing intuition is distinct from general intuition preference and grows with experience. Understanding this relationship can improve clinical judgment and patient outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Cognitive Psychology
Background:
- Limited research comparing nursing intuition measures with general intuition preference.
- Experienced nurses utilize intuition in clinical judgment, but its facets remain underexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between domain-specific (nursing) and domain-general intuition.
- To determine the role of intuition in nurses' decision-making processes.
Main Methods:
- Correlational design utilizing a web-based survey.
- 175 practicing and student nurses participated.
- Quantitative analyses included descriptive and inferential statistics.
Main Results:
- Two independent aspects of nursing intuition were identified, linked to general intuition and nursing experience.
- Preference for nursing intuition is not solely based on general intuition preference.
- The use of nursing intuition increases with professional experience.
Conclusions:
- Findings enhance understanding of clinical decision-making by differentiating nurses' preferences for intuition use.
- Further interdisciplinary collaboration is recommended to explore intuition in nursing.
- Encouraging intuition use in clinical practice may improve patient outcomes if linked to accurate symptom-outcome associations.
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