Pediatric Nurses' Cognitive Representations Of Children's Pain

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Pediatric Nurses' Cognitive Representations Of
Children's Pain Funded by the National
Institute of Nursing Research(R03 NR009808)
Principal Investigator Catherine Vincent, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor Maternal-Child Nursing
Purpose This study is being conducted to better
understand how pediatric nurses think about and
respond to childrens pain by examining their
cognitive representations using a new and unique
theoretically-driven method, the Conceptual
Content Cognitive Map (3CM) open-ended technique.
Laura pretends to give herself a shot
Example of Interview Script for 3CM
Example of one nurses cognitive representation
of pain using 3CM
Example of one nurses 3CM data coded by
investigators