NURS 351: Week 7-Clincial Judgement
questions well answered already passed
clinical judgement - correct answer ✔✔an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify standard
approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's response
clinical reasoning - correct answer ✔✔the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement
-process of noticing, interpreting, and responding
clinical thinking - correct answer ✔✔the ability to perceive the relevance of scientific evidence and its fit
with patient situation
scope of clinical judgement - correct answer ✔✔-standards based approach (if this is what happens,
then this is what you should do)
-evidence based practice
-interpretivist perspective (nursing gut; know that something needs to be addressed when you walk in
the room, comes with experience
attributes and criteria - correct answer ✔✔-involves a holistic view of the patient situation
-has a procress and orientation (circular process)
-requires reasoning and the interpretation of data: analytic, intuitive, narrative
-nursing is not linear: one must consider multiple complex variables for clinical reasoning
unique situations - correct answer ✔✔-nurse must recognize the uniqe situation of the patient, including
a deep understanding of both the clinical situation and the nurses contribution to the patient care
situation
-each patient situation and each nurse is different, aling with the clinical reasoning the leads to clinical
judgement
questions well answered already passed
clinical judgement - correct answer ✔✔an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify standard
approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's response
clinical reasoning - correct answer ✔✔the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement
-process of noticing, interpreting, and responding
clinical thinking - correct answer ✔✔the ability to perceive the relevance of scientific evidence and its fit
with patient situation
scope of clinical judgement - correct answer ✔✔-standards based approach (if this is what happens,
then this is what you should do)
-evidence based practice
-interpretivist perspective (nursing gut; know that something needs to be addressed when you walk in
the room, comes with experience
attributes and criteria - correct answer ✔✔-involves a holistic view of the patient situation
-has a procress and orientation (circular process)
-requires reasoning and the interpretation of data: analytic, intuitive, narrative
-nursing is not linear: one must consider multiple complex variables for clinical reasoning
unique situations - correct answer ✔✔-nurse must recognize the uniqe situation of the patient, including
a deep understanding of both the clinical situation and the nurses contribution to the patient care
situation
-each patient situation and each nurse is different, aling with the clinical reasoning the leads to clinical
judgement
