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| Question | Answer |
| Anchoring | Tendency to lock onto salient features in the patient's presentation too early in the clinical reasoning process - failing to adjust this initial impression in the light of new information. |
| Ascertainment bias | When a nurses thinking is shaped by prior assumptions and preconceptions. E.g. ageism, stereotyping |
| Confirmation bias | Tendency to look for confirming evidence to support a nursing diagnosis rather than look for disconfirming evidence to refute it |
| Diagnostic momentum | Once a patient has a label - the tendency for the label to remain and other possibilities to be excluded |
| Fundamental attribution error | The tendency to be judgemental and to blame patients for their illnesses rather than examine the circumstances responsible |
| Overconfidence bias | The tendency to believe we know more than we know - tendency to act on incomplete information |
| Premature closure | Tendency to accept a nursing diagnosis without sufficient evidence and before it has been fully verified |
| Psych-out error | People with mental illness may fail to have comorbidities identified - or - medical issues are misdiagnosed as psychiatric conditions |
| Unpacking principle | Failure to collect and unpack all of the relevant cues and consider differential diagnoses |
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