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**Abstract** Little is known about the acquisition of decision‐making skills in nursing students as a function of experience and academic ability. Knowing how experience and academic skills interact may help inform clinical education programs and formulate ways of assessing students’ progress. The aims of the present study were to develop a problem‐solving task capable of measuring clinical decision‐making skills in novice nurses at different levels of domain‐specific knowledge; and to establish the relative impact on decision‐making of domain‐specific knowledge and general ability as determinants of the acquisition of decision‐making skills. Three types of clinical problems of increasing complexity were developed. Sixty second‐year and third‐year student nurses with high and low academic scores were studied in terms of their ability to generate hypotheses for a hypothetical case, recognize disconfirming information and the need to access additional information, and diagnostic accuracy. The results showed that general academic ability and knowledge function partly independently in the acquisition of expertise in nursing. Academic ability affects decision‐making in low complexity ta

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Author

Mari Botti; Robert Reeve

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1441-0745)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)