An Exploration of Nursing Students' Clinical Decision-Making Process.

Int J Nurs Knowl

Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey.

Published: October 2018

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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2047-3095.12179DOI Listing

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