A seasoned nurse and a student are completing an admission history with a patient
On leaving the room and discussing their findings, the novice nurse is stunned that what the seasoned nurse learned about the patient seems so different from what he or she took from the interview. What explanation by the seasoned nurse best illustrates the dynamics of this interaction?
a. Experience facilitates selective attention and helps create reality for seasoned nurses.
b. Nurses working on one floor see similar patients and learn how to focus the questions.
c. The novice nurse simply does not know the most important questions to ask patients.
d. The novice nurse was focusing on asking all the questions on the admission database.
A
Experience teaches the nurse how to selectively pick out the most important messages, and habituation helps block out irrelevant messages. People are able to make sense of the messages they receive, in part, because of their past experience such that present reality is tied to these past experiences. The novice nurse has not yet been able to develop the skills of selective attention and habituation in a health care setting and has little experience to shape his or her understandings.
With a specific population, the nurse might be able to focus questions in this manner, but working on one floor consistently does not adequately explain the interaction.
The novice nurse may not yet be able to differentiate between important and not-so-important questions, but this explanation is too narrow to fully describe the interaction.
Novices do focus on procedures and steps to complete, but this explanation is too narrow to fully explain the interaction.
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