Content of clinical decision making process utilized by high institute of nursing graduates for patients care planning

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to identify content of the nursing process utilized by nurse graduates to plan patient care; identify the content of the clinical decision making process utilized by nurse graduates to plan patient care; identify characteristics of the decision process they used, in terms of hypothesis they generate when faced with a specific patients health problem needs, their used of clinical inquiry to develop working hypotheses, their use of diagnostic procedures in testing hypotheses, and their decision regarding intervention