L'abilità di problem solving dello studente infermiere: l'esperienza del corso di Laurea in Infermieristica dell'Università di Udine

The process nurses adopt to solve thè parienfs' problems isknown as "Problem Solving" in thè literature. Problem SolvingAbilities include Diagnostic Reasoning, Prognostic Judgmentand Decision Making. Nursing students apply thè PrablemSolving to thè Nursing Process that ìs thè mental and operativeapproach that nurses use to pian thè nursing care.The purpose of thè present study is to examine if there is apositive retationship befween thè number of EducationalTutoriol Sirategies (Briefing, Debriefing and Discussionaccording to thè Objective Structured Clinicai ExaminationMethodology) used for nursing students and their learning ofProblem Solving Abìiitles (Diagnostic Reasoning, PrognosticJudgment and Decision Making). The study design wasretrospective, descriptive and comparative. The ProblemSolving Instrument, specifically developed for this study andproved for its reliability and validity, was used to collect thèdata from a sample or 106 nursing care plans elaborated bythè second-year students of thè Bachelor Degree in Nursing ofthè University of Udine. Nursing care plans were elaboratedduring three times consecutively, after students hadparticipated in different Educational Tutorial Strategies. Resultsshowed that thè more thè students took part in a highernumber of Educational Tutorial Strategies thè more theysignificantly increased their Problem Solving Abilities. Theresults demonstrate that it Ìs important to use EducationalTutorial Strategies in thè nursing education to teach skills.