Purpose: To explore and synthesize literature related to the nursing process addressing the focus "Delusion".
Design and methods: This literature review is integrated with a scoping study framework. From the total 252 papers found, 39 were selected.
Findings: Relevant data and diagnostic activities, hypothetic nursing diagnoses, and interventions addressing the focus "Delusion" were identified.
Practice implications: This literature review allowed the development of a clinical data model addressing the focus "Delusion", based on the steps of the nursing process identified. This clinical data model may contribute towards improving nursing clinical decision-making and nursing care quality in relation to a client suffering from delusion as well as producing more reliable nursing-sensitive indicators.
Keywords: delusions; nursing; nursing process; psychiatric nursing; review.
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