Table 3 Explanatory factor analysis of preliminary items (N = 483)

23. Identify the other method other to solve the patient's problem.

24. Reflect the anything wrong with the plan before intervention.

26. Repeatedly reflect the process of solving the patient's problem.

18. A different perspective on patient's health problems.

27. Identify a better way to solve the problem even after solving the patient's problem.

25. Compare the results of the patient's problem solving with the target level.

21. Provide integrative interventions considering the patient and situation (e.g., family and environment).

22. Evaluate the nursing intervention.

10. A process of sufficient deliberation for interventions.

20. Collect additional data to close the gap between the information.

14. Continuously check the missing parts in solving the patient's problem.

6. Relate the knowledge to the information.

4. Prioritize problem solving strategies.

2. Discover important problems based on the data.

1. Distinguish the importance of the data.

5. Comprehensively grasp the relationship between the patient data.

9. Understand the overall patient situation.

12. Analyze the cause of an error during nursing care.

17. Find any problems in the care and correct them immediately.

33. Look for answers to questions don't know on my own.

35. Invest extra time to encounter problems to acquire don't know about the field of work.

32. Interested in acquiring new information related to the field of work.

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