DECISION MAKING IN RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Nurses' decision-making in clinical practice.

Aim To identify what decisions nurses make in medical, surgical and critical care areas and compare the results. Method A clinical decision-making questionnaire (CDMQ) consisting of 15 statements was developed. A total of 60 nurses completed the questionnaire: 20 from each of three clinical areas. Results Most nurses, in all specialties, regularly made clinical decisions on direct patient care,...

Ethical Decision-Making in Clinical Nutritional Practice

Ethics requires a critical evaluation of assumptions and arguments about norms and values; what should be done and what should not. Practitioners should practice ethically, and the professions should be at the forefront of applied ethics. There are four principles, patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, which are guides to ethical dayto-day practice. Patient autonomy: auton...

Integrating clinical research into clinical decision making.

Evidence-based medicine has placed a general priority on knowledge gained from clinical research for clinical decision making. However, knowledge derived from empiric, population-based research, while valued for its ability to limit bias, is not directly applicable to the care of individual patients. The gap between clinical research and individual patient care centers on the fact that empiric ...

Survey nurses’ collaboration in clinical decision making

Introduction: Nurses are the largest care delivering group. They have to judge in clinical ‎setting and by team work detect and solve patients’ problem in nursing function domains. ‎Collaboration in decision making helps this function. ‎  Objective: Present study aims to determine the level of nurses’ collaboration in clinical ‎decision making employed in edu...

ISSUES AND INNOVATIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE Research information in nurses' clinical decision-making: what is useful?