Decision Making
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications.

29 Nov 2009 The influence of religious beliefs and practices at the end of life is underinvestigated. Given nursing's advocacy role and the intimate and personal nature of the dimensions of religiosity and the end of life, exploring the multidimensional ... Read more...

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making.

29 Nov 2009 This article discusses delegation challenges and legal and regulatory oversight associated with delegation in the clinical practice setting. The authors address moral and legal attributes of the roles and responsibilities of health care providers ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Decision Making'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making. 29 Nov 2009
• Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude. 29 Nov 2009
• Judges' perception of candidates' organization and communication, in relation to oral certification examination ratings. 30 Oct 2009
• Treatment of sarcoidosis. 30 Oct 2009
• The perils of glaucoma surgical outcome analysis. 30 Oct 2009
• Surrogate decision making for a pregnant patient refusing emergency Caesarian section. 30 Oct 2009
• Patient-centered care and preference-sensitive decision making. 26 Oct 2009
• Resolving response, decision, and strategic control: evidence for a functional topography in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. 19 Oct 2009
• A piece of my mind. Can we agree to disagree? 19 Oct 2009
• Inconvenient truths about supplier induced demand and unwarranted variation in medical practice. 18 Oct 2009
• Corticostriatal Interactions during Learning, Memory Processing, and Decision Making. 12 Oct 2009
• Neural correlates of value, risk, and risk aversion contributing to decision making under risk. 5 Oct 2009
• Human information processing, health information technology, and medical outcomes. 5 Oct 2009
• A survey of adolescent experiences of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Manchester study. 4 Oct 2009
• Pharmacological and electrical conversion of atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm is worth the effort. 4 Oct 2009
• Dealing with the ethical dimension of dementia care. Oct 2009
• How can we help people to choose a method of contraception? The case for contraceptive decision aids. 29 Sep 2009
• Observed behaviours of pre-term children in a social play situation with classroom peers. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Decision Making'

Definition: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Descriptor UI: D003657

Alternative terms: Decision Making;

Related Mesh Headings: Decision Support Techniques; Game Theory; Policy Making;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373;

Technical Notes: not for a physician making a diagnostic decision: this is /diag or if GEN, DIAGNOSIS or DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL