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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.

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Published on: June 12, 2020

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.