Critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment : a practical approach / Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre.
What's behind every healed patient? Critical thinking! Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach, 5th Edition, provides the tools you need to become a safe, competent nurse. Using an inspiring, insightful, "how-to" approach, this book helps you develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and test-taking skills in preparation for the NCLEX® Examination and, even more importantly, apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning to nursing practice. Critical thinking and clinical reasoning strategies come to life through the use of real-life scenarios and decision-making tools, all supported with evidence for why the strategies work. Expert author Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre makes the concepts of critical thinking and clinical reasoning come alive, so you can start thinking like a nurse and learn essential critical thinking and clinical judgment reasoning skills for nursing practice. -- Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781437727760
- Physical Description: xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 5th edition.
Content descriptions
General Note: | New September 2013. Supporting nursing program. Rev. ed. of: Critical thinking and clinical judgment / Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre. 4th ed. c2009. Includes glossary. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chapter 1 What are critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment? -- Chapter 2 How to develop critical thinking -- Chapter 3 Clinical reasoning and clinical judgment -- Chapter 4 Ethical reasoning, evidence-based practice, teaching others, teaching ourselves, and test-taking -- Chapter 5 Practicing clinical reasoning skills: applying nursing process -- Chapter 6 Developing interpersonal, teamwork, and self-management skills -- Appendix A: Concept mapping: Getting in the "right" state of mind -- Appendix B: Key brain parts involved in thinking -- Appendix C: Patients' rights -- Appendix D: ANA Standards of practice and professional performance for registered nurses (RNs) -- Appendix E: Comprehensive patient admission tool -- Appendix F: NCLEX Practice questions. |
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Subject: | Nursing > Psychological aspects. Critical thinking. Nurse and patient. Patients. Nursing. Nursing Process. Clinical Competence. Decision Making. Judgment. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.
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Broadway Library | RT 86 A34 2013 (Text) | 33109009646233 | Learning Centre | Not holdable | Available | - |