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Developing and Testing of a Software Prototype to Support Diagnostic Reasoning of Nursing Students
Vanessa Emille Carvalho de Sousa1, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes2, Gail M Keenan3
1Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Purpose:
To design and test educational software to improve nursing students' diagnostic reasoning through NANDA-I-based clinical scenarios.
Methods:
A mixed method approach was used and included content validation by a panel of 13 experts and prototype testing by a sample of 56 students.
Findings:
Experts' suggestions included writing adjustments, new response options, and replacement of clinical information on the scenarios. Percentages of students' correct answers were 65.7%, 62.2%, and 60.5% for related factors, defining characteristics, and nursing diagnoses, respectively.
Conclusion:
Full development of this software shows strong potential for enhancing students' diagnostic reasoning.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
New graduates may be able to apply diagnostic reasoning more rapidly by exercising their diagnostic skills within this software.
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