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- Title
Le potentiel diagnostique des questions d'un test de concordance de scripts pour évaluer le raisonnement clinique infirmier.
- Authors
DUMONT, Katia; LOYE, Nathalie; GOUDREAU, Johanne
- Abstract
Background: The development of training programs requires an evaluation of nurses' clinical reasoning. However, there are issues with the evaluation, which uses existing tools. The script concordance test is a promising and innovative evaluation alternative. Purpose: To explore the possibility of using questions from a script concordance test as an evaluation tool in assessing nursing students' clinical reasoning abilities. Data: Transcripts of interviews with nurses and nursing students (n = 55) from a previous study[1] were used. During the interviews, participants were asked to share their thoughts aloud while taking a script concordance test. Analysis: Transcripts were coded to identify thinking categories and strategies used by participants to answer questions from the script concordance test. Q-matrices were then developed to formalize relationships between thinking categories/strategies and the test questions in each group of participants. Results: Each group used different thinking categories/strategies to answer questions in the script concordance test. These questions could help assess nursing students' strengths and weaknesses as they relate to their development level. The reasoning of nursing experts was so unlike that of students that they could not be used as a benchmark for diagnostic evaluation. Conclusion: Depending on groups student nurses use different thinking categories and strategies, and some SCT questions show a diagnostic potential in evaluating nurses' clinical reasoning per level (1st, 2nd and 3rd year).
- Publication
Pédagogie Médicale, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1625-6484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/pmed/2015012