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On problem solving in clinical nursing practice
Catherine Taylor
Director, Act Now Services Management, Education & Research Consultant, Melbourne VIC
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The very nature of modern nursing practice demands that nurses have the ability to solve patient related problems. According to Dowie and Elstein (1998), it is important to help novices acquire good clinical problem solving abilities, without causing distress to themselves or their patients during the learning process.
Main approaches to understanding problem solving
It appears that the majority of research studies into clinical problem solving in nursing have been informed either by decision theory or information processing theory.
McGuire (1985, p. 587) states that decision theory involŶհ
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