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The influence of nursing diagnosis on information processing by undergraduate students
1School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Purpose:
To examine the influence of a nursing diagnosis course on the information processing by undergraduate students.
Methods:
A quasi-experimental study conducted with two groups (experimental, n = 15; control, n = 22) of undergraduate nursing students, subjecting only one to a nursing diagnosis course. The students' ability to identify, cluster, and name clusters of relevant data were compared between and within groups.
Findings:
After the course, the experimental group performed better than the control group in the three activities studied.
Conclusions:
The results of this study suggest that the nursing diagnosis content in teaching favors clinical reasoning to determine the patient's nursing care.
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