This study describes the types of statements made by nurses as first impressions (hypotheses) of patient problems treatable by nurses in response to limited information (cues). Subjects were nine groups of nurses (n = 243), who varied in length of experience and in educational level from diploma students through masters students. / Completion of a paper and pencil task yielded 4199 hypotheses which were classified into 13 categories. Major differences were found between types offered by a group of master's students who had studied the diagnostic process and the remaining groups. Of the former's hypotheses, 85.6% were nursing diagnoses compared with a range of 35.5 - 61.4% from the latter. / Possible reasons for nurses' inability to make nursing diagnoses are failure to hypothesize the presence of appropriate problems and a lack of distinction between a nursing diagnosis, a medical diagnosis, data and plans for care.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.72011 |
| Date | January 1984 |
| Creators | Craig, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lynn) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000220315, proquestno: AAINL20875, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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