title: Content analysis of a technology to the nursing diagnostic reasoning.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to undergo a content analysis of a metacognitive strategy of indirect assessment in the pre-encounter with the client.
  
  
  METHODS
  methodological study. Agreement and inter-rater reliability index for the criteria: relevance, adequacy, clarity, conciseness and accuracy of a technology to the nursing diagnosis reasoning for novices through an electronic form. The sample consisted of 13 raters. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  high agreement and inter-rater reliability for 85 items related to data collection stage and the strategy description. Only fi ve items did not reach the validation criteria and must be rewritten.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  indirect assessment of the pre-encounter is relevant to the diagnostic reasoning process, being possible to develop competencies and diagnostic skills in the novice through strategies, proposals on innovative technology in the form of a diagram.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alessandra Borges Brum
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cleires
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marcos Antônio Gomes
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Brandão
authors.affiliation: Curso de Enfermagem e Obstetrícia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Beatriz Fernandes
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Cândida Caniçali
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Primo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results