Decision making of nurses practicing in intensive care in Canada, Finland, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, and the United States.
Heart Lung
; 27(2): 133-42, 1998.
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ABSTRACT
In this study, our intention was to describe the decision making of nurses practicing in intensive care, and the differences of nurses' decision making in Canada, Finland, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, and the United States. The instrument used in the study was a 56-item Likert-type questionnaire that has been used in previous studies and has proved to be a reliable tool. The target group comprised a nonrandom sample of nurses (N = 314) from five countries. The samples are not representative; therefore, the results in these cases cannot be generalized. The results showed that the decision making of nurses practicing in intensive care was broadly based, and that there were some country differences in data collection, problem definition, and planning. In contrast, decision making related to the implementation and evaluation of nursing is quite similar in the different countries. Canada and the United States on the one hand, and Finland, Northern Ireland, and Switzerland on the other, showed more similarities with each other in data collection, problem definition, and nursing planning related to decision making. Neither experience nor nurse's knowledge structure was associated with different decision-making approaches.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tomada de Decisões
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Unidades de Terapia Intensiva
/
Enfermeiras e Enfermeiros
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Heart Lung
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Finlândia