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The Effects Of Pattern Recognition Based Simulation Scenarios On Symptom Recognition Of Myocardial Infarction, Critical Thinking, Clinical Decision-Making, And Clinical Judgment In Nursing Students, Susan A. Walsh
Nursing Dissertations (PhD)
In the United States nearly 1 million annual new and recurrent myocardial infarctions (MI) occur with 10% of patients hospitalized with MI having unrecognized ischemic symptoms. Inexperienced nurses are expected to accurately interpret cardiac symptom cues, possibly without ever having experienced care of patients with MI, yet have been shown to be less able to classify symptom cues and reach accurate conclusions than experienced nurses. The purpose of this study was to test an educational intervention using theories of pattern recognition to develop CT in MI and improve nursing students’ clinical decision-making and clinical judgment using high fidelity patient simulation. …