BACKGROUND: Continuing education courses related to critical thinking and clinical reasoning are needed to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. METHOD: This study evaluated a 4-day, 16-hour continuing education course conducted in Brazil.Thirty-nine nurses completed a pretest and a posttest consisting of two written case studies designed to measure the accuracy of nurses' diagnoses. RESULTS: There were significant differences in accuracy from pretest to posttest for case 1 (p = .008) and case 2 (p = .042) and overall (p = .001). CONCLUSION: Continuing education courses should be implemented to improve the accuracy of nurses' diagnoses.
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