Further Reading

Deepen your knowledge and reinforce your learning of key topics with a selection of journal articles that support each chapter. Preceding each article is an annotation from the authors introducing its relevance for practice and revision.

Jerofke-Owen, T. and Dahlma, J. (2018) Patients’ perspectives on engaging in their healthcare while hospitalized, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1–11. doi:10.1111/jocn.14639.

This research article is useful to see patient involvement in their care and joint problem solving. The articulation of what patients actually experience in the hospital setting contributes to improve nursing practice by offering insight into what is important to the patient and how best to engage with them in their care. The constraints that patients reported facing related to their healthcare engagement should be used to inform the delivery of future engagement interventions in the acute care setting.

 

Lamb, B. and Sevdalis, N. (2011) How do nurses make decisions, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48 (3): 281–284. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2010.10.003.

This in-depth paper explores the various methodologies and methods of research into nurse decision-making processes in the workplace, noting the importance of these skills in ever complex clinical situations

 

Bjórk, I.T. and Hamilton, G.A. (2011) Clinical decision making of nurses working in hospital settings, Nursing Research and Practice, 1–8. doi: 10.1155/2011/524918

This Norwegian research study analysed nurses’ perceptions of clinical decision making in their clinical practice and compared differences in decision making related to nurse demographic and contextual variables.