Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a. Intuition.
b. The nursing process.
c. Clinical knowledge.
d. Diagnostic reasoning.
ANS: A
Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionâ€"expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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