Capturing judgement strategies in risk assessments with improved quality of clinical information: How nurses’ strategies differ from the ecological model

Conclusions:
Improving the quality of information by clinical simulations significantly impacted on nurses’ judgement policies of risk assessments. Nurses’ judgement strategies also varied with the increased years of experience. Such variations in processing clinical information may contribute to nurses’ suboptimal judgements in clinical practice. Constructing predictive models of common judgement situations, and increasing nurses’ awareness of information weightings in such models may help improve judgements made by nurses.

Source: Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations - January 23, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Huiqin YangCarl Thompson Source Type: research