Module 36 Clinical Decision Making - Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning Q&A

Clinical decision making a process nurses use in the clinical setting to evaluate and select the best actions to meet desired goals critical thinking all or part of the process of questioning, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inference, inductive and deductive reasoning, intuition, application, and creativity intellect the ability to think, understand, and reason salient cues the leading, most noticeable, or most important significant data that informs and influences conclusions about the patient's health status creativity finding unique solutions to unique problems when traditional interventions are not effective; for example, finding just the right way to connect with a patient who does not want to talk about her diabetes or finding interventions that best help a patient meet a goal so he can be discharged from the hospital inquiry a form of research defined as a search for knowledge or facts deductive reasoning the nurse works from the "top down" by starting with general ideas, observations, or principles and analyzing them to develop specific predictions inductive reasoning working from the bottom up clinical reasoning the use of careful reasoning in the clinical setting to improve patient care, is a learned skill that novice nurses must practices reflection the action of retrospectively making sense of occurrences, experiences, situations, or decisions and consequently learning from them intuition the use of nursing knowledge, experience, and expertise for understanding without the conscious use of reasoning nursing process used to identify a patient's