A nurse educator senses that a student has been struggling with clinic

A nurse educator senses that a student has been struggling with clinical skills learned in lab. In the clinical area, this student is usually lagging behind and seems to be involved when the other students have opportunities to perform some of the tasks.

The educator pairs the student with a particularly outgoing staff nurse who has a number of unique clients with a variety of treatments and cares. The educator is utilizing which type of problem solving?
1. Trial and error
2. Intuition
3. Research process
4. Experience

ANSWER

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale: Intuition is the understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning. It is also known as the sixth sense, hunch, instinct, feeling, or suspicion. In this case, the educator has a sense that the student is struggling, though there are no real facts to support it. Experience is part of intuition, but by itself, not a particular way to problem solve. Trial and error uses a number of approaches until a solution is found, which is not the case here. Trial-and-error methods in nursing care can be dangerous because the client might suffer harm if an approach is inappropriate. The research process is a systematic, analytical, and logical way to problem solve.