Abstract

This quasi-experimental study tested the effectiveness of an educational model, Developing Nurses' Thinking (DNT), on nursing students' clinical reasoning to achieve patient safety. Teaching nursing students to develop effective thinking habits that promote positive patient outcomes and patient safety is a challenging endeavor. Positive patient outcomes and safety are achieved when nurses accurately interpret data and subsequently implement appropriate plans of care. This study's pretest-posttest design determined whether use of the DNT model during 2 weeks of clinical postconferences improved nursing students' (N = 83) diagnostic accuracy. The DNT model helps students to integrate four constructs-patient safety, domain knowledge, critical thinking processes, and repeated practice-to guide their thinking when interpreting patient data and developing effective plans of care. The posttest scores of students from the intervention group showed statistically significant improvement in accuracy.

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Authors

Tesoro MG

Institution

Department of Nursing, Lehman College, Bronx New York 10709, USA. mary.tesoro@lehman.cuny.edu

Source

The Journal of nursing education 51:8 2012 Aug pg 436-43

MeSH

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Educational Measurement
Humans
Models, Educational
New York City
Nursing Diagnosis
Patient Safety
Problem-Based Learning
Program Evaluation
Thinking

Pub Type(s)

Controlled Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Multicenter Study

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22694666