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    Area of Science:

    • Nursing Education
    • Physiology
    • Clinical Psychology

    Background:

    • Clinical decision-making is a core competency for nurses.
    • Understanding the physiological underpinnings of decision-making can inform educational strategies.
    • Sympathetic activity, indicated by skin conductance, reflects physiological arousal and stress.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate differences in sympathetic activity between experienced nurses and nursing students.
    • To explore the relationship between sympathetic responses and clinical scenario performance.

    Main Methods:

    • A quasi-experimental pilot study involving 11 senior nursing students and 10 experienced nurses.
    • Participants engaged in a computer-generated clinical scenario.
    • Skin conductance responses were continuously recorded during the scenario.

    Main Results:

    • Experienced nurses exhibited significantly more skin conductance responses than nursing students.
    • Experienced nurses achieved higher scores on the clinical scenario.
    • Bodily signals (skin conductance) occurred more frequently in experienced nurses during decision-making.

    Conclusions:

    • Experienced nurses display heightened physiological responses during complex clinical decision-making.
    • These findings suggest that bodily signals play a role in effective clinical judgment.
    • Implications for nurse educators to integrate the development of such signals in student training.