Essential decision making and clinical judgement for nurses
By: edited by Carl Thompson, Dawn Dowding ; foreword by Anne Marie Rafferty.
Contributors: Thompson, Carl, DPhil.; Dowding, Dawn.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780443067273
Subjects: Nursing -- Decision making; Decision Making; Nursing Care; Decision Support Techniques; Evidence-Based Nursing; Nursing Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncertainty and nursing / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding; title: Probability : the language of uncertainty / Carl Thompson & Martin Bland; title: Using information in decision making / Dawn Dowding & Carl Thompson; title: Theoretical approaches / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding; title: What is a 'good' judgement or decision? / Dawn Dowding & Carl Thompson; title: When decision making goes wrong / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding; title: Avoiding errors / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding; title: Diagnosis for nurses / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding; title: Prognosis in nursing / Dawn Dowding & Carl Thompson; title: Evidence-based decisions : the role of decision analysis / Dawn Dowding & Carl Thompson; title: The economics of clinical decision making / Jo Dumville & Marta Soares; title: Involving patients in decision making / Vicky Entwistle & Ian Watt; title: Communicating risks and benefits / Dawn Dowding & Carl Thompson; title: Teaching clinical decision making and judgement / Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding.