title: Use of the critical decision method in nursing research: an integrative review.
abstract: The focus of this article is the background and use of the critical decision method in nursing research. The purpose is to present a synthesis of the body of work whose authors used the critical decision method to explore nurses' cognitive work. For this integrative review of literature, I used the 5-step process: problem formulation, literature search, data evaluation, data analysis, and presentation. Synthesis of the 7 studies uncovered evidence of nurses' cognitive processes and demands of their practice environments and affirmed the method as a valuable tool for eliciting experienced nurses' practice knowledge making nursing expertise explicit.
authors: Simmons College, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. priscilla.gazarian@gmail.com
authors: Priscilla K
authors: PK
authors: Gazarian
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003071:Cognition; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*