title: [Clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing education: a scoping review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed at analyzing the current state of knowledge on clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing education.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic scoping review through a search strategy applied to the MEDLINE database, and an analysis of the material recovered by extracting data done by two independent reviewers. The extracted data were analyzed and synthesized in a narrative manner.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From the 1380 citations retrieved in the search, 23 were kept for review and their contents were summarized into five categories: 1) the experience of developing critical thinking/clinical reasoning/decision-making process; 2) teaching strategies related to the development of critical thinking/clinical reasoning/decision-making process; 3) measurement of variables related to the critical thinking/clinical reasoning/decision-making process; 4) relationship of variables involved in the critical thinking/clinical reasoning/decision-making process; and 5) theoretical development models of critical thinking/clinical reasoning/decision-making process for students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The biggest challenge for developing knowledge on teaching clinical reasoning seems to be finding consistency between theoretical perspectives on the development of clinical reasoning and methodologies, methods, and procedures in research initiatives in this field.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.|Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Escola de Enfermagem, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sáskia Sampaio Cipriano de
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Consuelo Garcia
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Corrêa
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rita de Cássia Gengo E
authors.initials: Rde C
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Diná de Almeida Monteiro Lopes da
authors.initials: Dde A
authors.lastname: Cruz
mesh_terms: D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans