Griffith Patricia B, Mariani Bette, Kelly Michelle M
About the Authors Patricia B. Griffith, PhD, CRNP, ACNP-BC, is advanced senior lecturer, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bette Mariani, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, is vice dean of academic affairs and a professor, Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Michelle M. Kelly, PhD, CRNP, CNE, FAANP, is associate professor, Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. Dr. Mariani, Research Briefs editor for Nursing Education Perspectives , had no role in the review or selection of this article. This work was supported by the National League for Nursing Education Scholarship and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Nursing Schools Association Nursing Education Research funding. For more information, contact Dr. Griffith at
Nurs Educ Perspect. 2023;44(6):E18-E24. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001158. Epub 2023 Jul 4.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of structured reflection used during a simulated patient's diagnostic workup on diagnostic reasoning competency and accuracy and explore participants' cognitive bias experience and perceived utility of structured reflection.
Reasoning flaws may lead to diagnostic errors. Medical learners who used structured reflection demonstrated improved diagnosis accuracy.
Embedded mixed-methods experiment examined diagnostic reasoning competency and accuracy of nurse practitioner students who did and did not use structured reflection. Cognitive bias experience and perceptions of structured reflection's utility were explored.
Diagnostic Reasoning Assessment mean competency scores and categories were not changed. Accuracy trended toward improvement with structured reflection. The theme, diagnostic verification, prompted diagnosis change by both structured reflection users and control participants.
Despite no changes in quantitative outcomes, explicit users of structured reflection believed that this strategy is helpful to their reasoning, and control participants used the strategy's components with the same noted benefits.
本研究旨在探讨在模拟患者诊断检查过程中使用结构化反思对诊断推理能力和准确性的影响,并探究参与者的认知偏差体验以及对结构化反思的感知效用。
推理缺陷可能导致诊断错误。使用结构化反思的医学学习者诊断准确性有所提高。
采用嵌入式混合方法实验,考察使用和未使用结构化反思的执业护士学生的诊断推理能力和准确性。探究认知偏差体验以及对结构化反思效用的看法。
诊断推理评估的平均能力得分和类别未发生变化。结构化反思使准确性有提高的趋势。“诊断验证”这一主题促使使用结构化反思的用户和对照组参与者改变诊断。
尽管定量结果没有变化,但明确使用结构化反思的用户认为该策略有助于他们的推理,且对照组参与者使用该策略的组成部分也有同样显著的益处。