Scoping review: Diagnostic reasoning as a component of clinical reasoning in the U.S. primary care nurse practitioner education.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Diagnostic Reasoning (DR) is an essential competency requiring mastery for safe, independent Nurse Practitioner (NP) practice, but little is known about DR content included in NP education programs. The aims of this study were to identify whether and how the concept of DR is addressed in NP education.

Design

We conducted a scoping review on DR-related content and teaching innovations in U.S. primary care NP education programs, with implications for NP education programs worldwide. Concepts and principles with global applicability include: conducting focused and hypothesis-directed histories and exams, generating the problem statement, formulating the differential diagnosis, appropriate and relevant diagnostic testing, determining the working diagnosis and developing evi

SUBMITTER: Smith SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9805128 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature