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Rafael Oliveira Pitta Lopes1, Cândida Caniçali Primo2, Jaqueline Santos de Andrade Martins3
1Rafael Oliveira Pitta Lopes, RN, MSN, is a PhD student at Anna Nery School of Nursing, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Assistant Professor at Nursing and Midwifery Graduate Course, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, Brazil.
Purpose:
To describe an educational technology to be applied to the teaching and learning of diagnostic judgment based on nursing theories.
Methods:
A methodological study with 10 stages for the development of educational technology.
Findings:
An innovative educational technology is proposed to incorporate theoretical and methodological domains in a V-shaped diagram for the diagnosis judgment.
Conclusions:
The technology is innovative in integrating theory and method in a more comprehensive and original way, considering the philosophies and world views of students throughout the reasoning process.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
T-NDx Diagram may be useful in enhancing the integration of philosophical and theoretical knowledge and diagnostic judgment, especially for nursing undergraduate students.
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