title: [The diagnostic process in nursing].
abstract: The aim of this investigation was to uncover the reason of difficulties nurses have in defining the patient's problem. For this reason the diagnostic process of nurses caring for patients in pain was investigated in the field. Observations, interviews and questionnaires were analysed in a qualitative and quantitative way. The analysis of the data shows that the observed nurses didn't value the information received by using the problem solving process and didn't use it to define the nursing problem. But the results also point out that nurses have the ability to gather information in the direct contact with the patient. The question is: could there be a lack of training in cognitive processes?
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authors.lastname: Settelen-Strub
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis