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Clinical Decision Making In Last Semester Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Beth Cusatis Phillips
Clinical Decision Making In Last Semester Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Beth Cusatis Phillips
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Clinical decision making (CDM) is an integral part of what nurses do (Muir, 2004; Ramezani-Badr, Nasrabadi, Yekta, & Taleghani, 2009). Yet, inspection of the nursing literature reveals concerns about the lack of preparation and readiness of new nursing graduates to engage in effective clinical decision making (Smith & Crawford, 2002, Duchscher, 2008, Gillespie & Paterson, 2009, Benner, Sutphen, Leonard & Day, 2010, Noohi, Karimi-Noghondar, & Haghdoost, 2012). This study was conducted to better understand the nature of students’ decision making and how they learn to make clinical decisions. Nursing students in their final semester of a baccalaureate program participated in …
Treatment Decision Making In African American Women Diagnosed With Advanced Breast Cancer, Dauphne Annette Sims
Treatment Decision Making In African American Women Diagnosed With Advanced Breast Cancer, Dauphne Annette Sims
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TREATMENT DECISION MAKING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADVANCED BREAST CANCER
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Dauphne Annette Sims
When diagnosed with breast cancer African American women have more advanced stage breast disease and encounter disparities throughout the cancer care continuum. The process of making treatment decisions can widen or narrow disparities in health outcomes. The decision making process in African American women may be influenced by several dynamics that influence how treatment decisions are made and have been previously unexplained. Guided by the conceptual framework of Cultural Capital, this grounded theory study explored the treatment decision making process of 12 African …