title: Strategies for avoiding pitfalls in clinical decision-making.
abstract: This article is the first in a series of four exploring how nurses make decisions. It distinguishes clinical judgement from the process of decision-making and looks at the sorts of decisions nurses make and what can go wrong.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dowding
authors.forename: Dorothy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McCaughan
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing