Asked by Corinna Ragsdale on Jun 08, 2024
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The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. While teaching the class, what should the nurse keep in mind regarding what novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw upon, are more likely to base their decisions on?
A) Intuition
B) A set of rules
C) Articles in journals
D) Advice from supervisors
Novice Nurses
Nursing professionals in the early stages of their career who are acquiring new skills and knowledge in the field.
Skills and Experience
Skills and experience refer to the abilities and knowledge gained through practice, training, or previous professional roles, crucial for performing tasks effectively.
Base Their Decisions
The process or principle upon which individuals or entities rely to make choices or judgments.
- Differentiate between the levels of experience in nursing practice and their impact on decision making.
Verified Answer
AA
anjali ahujaJun 14, 2024
Final Answer :
B
Explanation :
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules to make decisions. It takes time, perhaps a few years, in similar clinical situations to achieve competency and it is functioning at the level of an expert practitioner when intuition is included in making clinical decisions. Intuition is included in decision making when functioning at the level of an expert practitioner. While information in journal articles and advice from supervisors may assist in making decisions, novice nurses do not typically base their decisions on them. It would also be important that if information from journal articles and advice from supervisors were used, that they were evidence based.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between the levels of experience in nursing practice and their impact on decision making.