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An Exploration of Nursing Students' Clinical Decision-Making Process
Ayten Zaybak1, Handan Özdemir1, Ahmet Erol1
1Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey.
Purpose:
This study was carried out descriptively and retrospectively with the purpose of determining nursing diagnoses used by intern students in their clinical practice.
Methods:
The study data were obtained by checking the care plans of the internship files of 248 students studying at a nursing faculty.
Findings:
The students determined 77 different nursing diagnoses in 13 domains of North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)-I taxonomy II. The total number of nursing diagnosis used in the care plans was 1,469.
Conclusion:
Most of the diagnoses determined by the students were in the "safety/ protection" domain; however, they determined no diagnoses in the "life principles" domain.
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