Publications by authors named "Joey Desforges"

Article Synopsis
  • The text discusses the importance of clinical decision-making for nurses, highlighting that it's essential for providing safe and high-quality care, and emphasizes the need for reliable instruments to assess nurses' self-reported decision-making skills.
  • The objective is to evaluate the measurement properties of these self-reported clinical decision-making instruments in nursing through a systematic review, adhering to COSMIN standards.
  • The review identified nine instruments from eleven studies focused on registered nurses and nursing students, noting that most instruments explored analytical and intuitive decision-making, while findings showed a lack of assessment in areas like measurement error and criterion validity.
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Aim: To explore the knowledge content and structure of nursing students' decision-making in a high-stake clinical situation of postpartum hemorrhage using the Recognition-Primed Decision Model.

Background: According to research on clinical judgment, a nurse's expectations for a patient situation are central to the clinical decision-making process. However, little research has addressed the expectation concept and its relationship with the nurse's knowledge.

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