Medical education stimulates development clinical reasoning in medical students and residents to be able making the correct diagnosis for their patients. Clinical reasoning process in doctors develops through the time which gives them more competency to do that as experts. However, it is not known which instructional strategies that would improve clinical reasoning process in doctors. Such strategy makes medical students and residents think more effective like experts. This study focused on effects
to be able to discern the actual problem. It is clinical reasoning that allows nurses to do this (Simmons, 2009). Clinical reasoning is an essential element of competent nursing practice. It is a process that involves both understanding and reflective thinking and is dependent on the critical thinking ability of nurses. Those with effective clinical reasoning skills can enhance patient outcomes. On the contrary, those with poor clinical reasoning skills will compromise patient safety as they will
Testing Hypotheses of Clinical Assessments "The initial assessment sessions are crucial in the practice, research, and theory of cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy," and as such it is incredibly important (Sanavio, 2012, p 174). Initial assessments in clinical psychology can lead the psychologist to a number of assumptions based on the notion that they do not know the patient beyond the context of one single session. These assessments facilitate the creation of a number of hypotheses, all of
Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning Critical thinking and clinical reasoning are terms often used interchangeably throughout the history of nursing. However, they are not the same, and distinguishing the difference amongst them is important. The purpose of this paper is to define critical thinking and clinical reasoning, discuss each concepts similarities and differences, as well as share this author’s perspective on how critical thinking and clinical reasoning have developed and evolved throughout
Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning Critical thinking and clinical reasoning are terms often used interchangeably throughout the history of nursing. However, they are not the same, and distinguishing the difference amongst them is important. The purpose of this paper is define critical thinking and clinical reasoning, discuss each concepts similarities and differences, as well as share this author’s perspective on how critical thinking and clinical reasoning have developed and evolved throughout
Clinical reasoning, evidenced based practice and my application of both in nursing practice Clinical reasoning, evidenced based practice and my application of both in nursing practice Simmons (2009) states “clinical reasoning guides nurses in assessing, assimilating, retrieving, and/or discarding components of information that affect patient care” (p. 1151). I feel that without clinical reasoning nurses would just be going through the motion of caring for a patient with
Effective observation of patient is the first crucial phase to identify deteriorating patients and apply effective measure to care for them (Mandy, Christina & David, 2009). Nurse’s role is taking care of patients, supporting, and helping them recovery them from disease or any medical condition they came with and improving their quality of lives and get, them back to community to function as normal. However, not always things go efficiently as planned. Nurses work with other multi-disciplinary team
NURS 409 Community Health Nursing Weekly Clinical Journal Each clinical week a journal needs to be submitted evaluating your ability to meet the clinical performance objectives. Examples must be provided detailing how you have achieved the objectives. 1. Plan, provide, and delegate client-centered and coordinated care that promotes safe and high quality outcomes. - During this week I was not in the clinical setting, however I did participate in a case studies in which I was able to plan provide
CURRENT RELATED RESEARCH (CLINICAL REASONING) The term clinical reasoning is a term used interchangeably with critical thinking, clinical judgement, decision making and problem solving. However, in nursing education there has been a shift away from the use of the word critical thinking to the word clinical reasoning to describe the way nurses think in clinical situations. Clinical reasoning denotes attention on patient care situation and exposing the nature of patient problems (Benner et al., 2010)
Alpha Mansaray NURS 409 Community Health Nursing Weekly Clinical Journal Each clinical week a journal needs to be submitted evaluating your ability to meet the clinical performance objectives. Examples must be provided detailing how you have achieved the objectives. 1. Plan, provide, and delegate client-centered and coordinated care that promotes safe and high quality outcomes. - I was able to plan, provide, and delegate care as I worked with nurse cole and fellow student nurse. Whenever the children