Critical Thinking and Clinical Decision Making In Critical Care Nursing: A Pilot Study

Triage Decision-Making Levels of Healthcare Professionals Working in Emergency Departments

“…Healthcare professionals performing triage should be able to rapidly identify priorities using their critical thinking skills in EDs, which are mostly complex, crowded, noisy, and stressful environments (22). The results of the present study showed a negative correlation between educational level and critical thinking skills, which was consistent with those from a previous study (25). These results are thought to be associated with the fact that paramedics are high school graduates and that they have received extensive knowledge on triage during their education.…”

Factors influencing decision making among ambulance nurses in emergency care situations

“…Inadequate information and other uncertain factors contribute to making the decision more complex. Hicks et al (2003) found that the degree of unanimity in the decisions decreases the more complex the situation is. Unanimity is defined when the same decision is made in the fast intuitive and in the analytical decision making process.…”

“…Experience is necessary for expert knowledge, because it enables various interpretations of situations when complex decisions must be made (Hicks et al, 2003). However, it must not be assumed that long experience automatically means that the expert level has been achieved (Dreyfus and Dreyfus, 1986;Benner, 1984).…”

High fidelity full sized human patient simulation manikins: Effects on decision making skills of nursing students

“…While the process by expert nurses involved both rational and intuitive thinking [2] , the process in stressful situations is believed to involve oscillations between analytic and intuitive reasoning [3] . Under the pressure to produce students who are prepared for effective clinical practice, there is an increasing demand to develop students' ability to engage in the kind of decision making process similar to that employed by qualified nurses at the point of their qualifying as registered nurses [4,5] . The development of decision making based on critical thinking skills has become important in pre-registration nursing education [6] ; also known as pre-licensure or pre-qualifying nursing education.…”