Effects of reflection diary training on nurse's clinical decision-making capability / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effects of reflection diary training on nurse's clinical decision-making capability.Methods A total of 489 nurses in our hospital were enrolled in the study for tests of their clinical decision capability between July 2013 and July 2015.Two hundred forty-eight of them were set as the experiment group and two hundred forty-one of them were set as the control group at random.The reflection diary training was applied in the experiment group for one year.Result After intervention,the scores on clinical decision-making ability,clinical thinking,knowledge structure,ability in nurse-patient communication were all significantly higher than those of control group (P＜0.01).Conclusion The reflection diary training can improve nurse's clinical decision-making capability and inspire their clinical thinking about the nursing problems.