Nursing Decision Making

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• Nursing Decision Making
• An Integrated Programme of Research to Maximise
  the Effectiveness of Clinical Nursing Resources
• A Health Research Board
• Research Programme, 2002-2007

• Co-directors
• Professor P Anne Scott
• Dublin City University (DCU)
• E-mail anne.scott_at_dcu.ie
• Professor Pearl Treacy
• University College Dublin NUI (UCD)
• E-mail pearl.treacy_at_ucd.ie
• Research Team
• Dr P Mac Neela, DCU
• Dr A Hyde, UCD
• Dr M Butler, UCD
• Contact - DCU
• Sue Mc Govern, MSc, BSc, RGN
• E-mail susan.mcgovern_at_dcu.ie

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• The purpose of the programme is to examine the
  decision-making that underpins the nursing
  contribution to health and social care at
  individual, interpersonal and organisational
  levels.
• Clinical judgement and decision-making in nursing
  is related to key components of effective nursing
  care, including
• The phenomena nurses use to understand their
  patients/clients, such as nursing diagnoses
• Health maintenance activities and deliberative
  therapeutic interventions that nurses carry out
• Outcomes associated with nursing care, such as
  nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
• Between 2002-2007, the research team will examine
  the basis to nursing decision-making and develop
  clinical applications to support an
  evidence-based approach to clinical nursing
  practice.

• The Health Research Board has awarded a research
  team at the School of Nursing, DCU, and the
  School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, UCD, the
  first Research Programme in Nursing in Ireland,
  in Nursing Decision-Making.
• The research will focus on two areas
• Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
• A data set tool will be developed to
  systematically analyse nursing phenomena,
  activities, and outcomes, including user
  satisfaction with care. The NMDS tool will be
  used in community/institutional and general
  nursing/mental health nursing settings, and will
  be developed using methods such as organisational
  studies of decision making and focus groups.
• Clinical judgement and decision making
• Nursing decision-making will be analysed from a
  cognitive perspective, giving an insight into the
  sources of information that nurses draw on in
  forming judgements and inferences, and the
  structures/processes that guide information use
  in decision-making.