Clinical judgement and information seeking by nurses and physicians working with cancer patients



: Salantera S, Eriksson E, Junnola T, Salminen EK, Lauri S

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD

: 2003

 Psycho-Oncology

: PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY

: PSYCHO-ONCOL

: 12

: 3

: 280

: 290

: 11

: 1057-9249

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.643


According to the results nurses and physicians apply different approaches to clinical judgement and problem-solving. On the basis of the status statement they received in the program both groups pointed to similar problems and sought a great deal of additional information. However the type of information required was different in the two groups. There were also significant differences in the knowledge base applied for purposes of clinical judgement: nurses tended to rely on personal knowledge, physicians on theory. Physicians were able to identify their patient's major clinical problems, but nurses had more difficulty doing this. On the other hand, nurses took a broader view on the general well-being of patients than physicians did. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.



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