NDLI: Capturing judgement strategies in risk assessments with improved quality of clinical information: How nurses’ strategies differ from the ecological model

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Author	Yang, Huiqin Thompson, Carl
Abstract	Background Nurses’ risk assessments of patients at risk of deterioration are sometimes suboptimal. Advances in clinical simulation mean higher quality information can be used as an alternative to traditional paper-based approaches as a means of improving judgement. This paper tests the hypothesis that nurses’ judgement strategies and policies change as the quality of information used by nurses in simulation changes. Methods Sixty-three student nurses and 34 experienced viewed 25 paper-case based and 25 clinically simulated scenarios, derived from real cases, and judged whether the (simulated) patient was at ‘risk’ of acute deterioration. Criteria of judgement “correctness” came from the same real cases. Information relative weights were calculated to examine judgement policies of individual nurses. Group comparisons of nurses and students under both paper and clinical simulation conditions were undertaken using non parametric statistical tests. Judgment policies were also compared to the ecological statistical model. Cumulative relative weights were calculated to assess how much information nurses used when making judgements. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to examine predictive accuracy amongst the nurses. Results There were significant variations between nurses’ judgement policies and those optimal policies determined by the ecological model. Nurses significantly underused the cues of consciousness level, respiration rate, and systolic blood pressure than the ecological model requires. However, in clinical simulations, they tended to make appropriate use of heart rate, with non-significant difference in the relative weights of heart rate between clinical simulations and the ecological model. Experienced nurses paid substantially more attention to respiration rate in the simulated setting compared to paper cases, while students maintained a similar attentive level to this cue. This led to a non-significant difference in relative weights of respiration rate between experienced nurses and students. Conclusions Improving the quality of information by clinical simulations significantly impacted on nurses’ judgement policies of risk assessments. Nurses’ judgement strategies also varied with the increased years of experience. Such variations in processing clinical information may contribute to nurses’ suboptimal judgements in clinical practice. Constructing predictive models of common judgement situations, and increasing nurses’ awareness of information weightings in such models may help improve judgements made by nurses.
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ISSN	14726947
DOI	10.1186/s12911-016-0243-1
Journal	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	16
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2016-01-23
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Health Informatics Information Systems and Communication Service Management of Computing and Information Systems Judgement policy Judgement strategy Risk assessment Clinical experience
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Informatics Computer Science Applications Health Policy
Journal Impact Factor	3.3/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.9/2023

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