TY - JOUR
T1 - Nurses perception of factors infuencing clinical decision making
AU - Nageshwar, V.
AU - Noronha, Judith A.
AU - Nileshwar, Anitha
AU - George, Anice
AU - Nayak, Baby S.
AU - Jose, Tessy Treesa
AU - Valsaraj, Blessy Prabha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Introduction: Nurses are practicing in the era of ongoing advancement of research and technology. This change in health care environment needs nurses to improve competency in decision making to respond to client’s requirement. Objective: To find out perceived factors affecting Clinical Decision Making (CDM) skills regarding Post-operative pain management among staff nurses. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 165 nurses in a selected hospital of Udupi district, Karnataka. A 36 item Questionnaire on Factors Affecting CDM regarding Post-operative pain management was used to assess the factors affecting CDM for caring for with post-operative pain. Results: Majority of the participants agreed that Self-esteem (General), education regarding decision making, situation, clinical nursing experience were the most influencing factors. Apart from the above factors, influence of Senior nurses in the clinical field (Modeling), cognitive process, relationship with ward in-charge, perception of CDM were the moderately influencing factors and the least influencing factors were locus of control and stress related to clinical decision making regarding Post-operative pain management Conclusion: Clinical decision making is an essential component of quality clinical nursing practice. Understanding the factors influencing decision making enables to strengthen the individual and external factors enabling appropriate decisions to be taken regarding patient care.
AB - Introduction: Nurses are practicing in the era of ongoing advancement of research and technology. This change in health care environment needs nurses to improve competency in decision making to respond to client’s requirement. Objective: To find out perceived factors affecting Clinical Decision Making (CDM) skills regarding Post-operative pain management among staff nurses. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 165 nurses in a selected hospital of Udupi district, Karnataka. A 36 item Questionnaire on Factors Affecting CDM regarding Post-operative pain management was used to assess the factors affecting CDM for caring for with post-operative pain. Results: Majority of the participants agreed that Self-esteem (General), education regarding decision making, situation, clinical nursing experience were the most influencing factors. Apart from the above factors, influence of Senior nurses in the clinical field (Modeling), cognitive process, relationship with ward in-charge, perception of CDM were the moderately influencing factors and the least influencing factors were locus of control and stress related to clinical decision making regarding Post-operative pain management Conclusion: Clinical decision making is an essential component of quality clinical nursing practice. Understanding the factors influencing decision making enables to strengthen the individual and external factors enabling appropriate decisions to be taken regarding patient care.
KW - Clinical decision making
KW - Factors influencing
KW - Staff nurses
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U2 - 10.5958/0976-5506.2016.00189.3
DO - 10.5958/0976-5506.2016.00189.3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991738603
SN - 0976-0245
VL - 7
SP - 54
EP - 58
JO - Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development
JF - Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development
IS - 4
ER -
