Description
Clinical Reasoning & Critical Thinking
Instructions
You will investigate the use of clinical reasoning in developing and applying advanced health history and physical assessment skills at the graduate level. Consider contemporary nursing literature on the development of clinical reasoning and decision-making. How does the use of the nursing process enhance critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in professional nursing practice at the graduate level? Please use the submission parameters and rubric below to guide you when completing this assignment.
For this assignment, please use the following guidelines and criteria. Also, please refer to the rubric for point allocation and assignment expectations. Include the following in your completed assignment as a minimum to meet mastery of this assignment:
Introduction of topic in one paragraph with a purpose statement
Clinical Reasoning
Describe how clinical reasoning is used in developing and applying advanced health history and physical assessment skills at the graduate level.
Differentiate clinical reasoning, critical thinking, clinical judgment, & clinical decision-making.
Nursing Process
Describe how the use of the nursing process enhances critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in professional nursing practice at the graduate level.
Clinical Examples:
Discuss an example from your practice or the literature demonstrating the nurse’s use of critical thinking, clinical judgment, and clinical reasoning with the well-adult.
Also discuss how nursing care is provided when each of these concepts are evidenced in care of the patient within one of the following patient populations: older adult, adolescent, or another special population of your choice.
Conclusion
References (contemporary nursing research studies or reliable electronic sources)