Hybrid Concept Analysis: Peer Collaborative Clinical Decision-Making in Nursing Simulation
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Background:
Nursing students collaborate and make clinical decisions in simulation scenarios. However, the literature does not clearly define the concept of peer collaborative clinical decision-making (PCCDM). This hybrid concept analysis explored and established the definition of PCCDM among nursing students in simulation.
Method:
A total of 19 articles were reviewed, and 11 dyads of nursing students were interviewed after participating in virtual reality simulation for their perspectives on PCCDM.
Results:
Five major themes were identified: group (1) communication; (2) awareness; (3) regulation; (4) reasoning; and (5) emotion. The conceptual definition of PCCDM is a dynamic, nonhierarchical, and group-level process of cognitive and socioemotional interactions among peers about a clinical situation that involves group communication, awareness, and regulation of reasoning and emotion within the collaborative space.
Conclusion:
This analysis provides a conceptual definition of PCCDM in nursing simulation as well as a pathway for developing a theoretical framework and instrument. [.
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