Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment

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. New to this edition * NEW and expanded content on clinical reasoning includes rapid response teams, safety issues, skilled communication, hand-off tools, informatics, preceptor use, empowering patients, applying the nursing process, and more. * A focus on current trends relates critical thinking and clinical reasoning to today's nursing practice by matching content to Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies, and National Patient Safety Goals. * Maps and decision-making tools help you to "think things through" and make sound decisions about issues such as scope of practice and delegating safely and effectively. * Think, Pair, Share exercises promote in-depth learning through collaboration with peers and experts. By Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre, RN, MSN, ANEF, President, Teaching Smart/Learning Easy, Stuart, FL Table of Contents: 1. What are Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment? 2. How to Develop Critical Thinking 3. Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment 4. Ethical Reasoning, Evidence-Based Practice, Teaching Others, Teaching Ourselves, and Test-Taking 5. Practicing Clinical Reasoning Skills: Applying Nursing Process 6. Developing Interpersonal, Teamwork, and Self-management Skills Response Key for Exercises in Chapters 1 to 5 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 Appendix E: Comprehensive Patient Admission Tool Appendix F: NCLEX Practice Questions Glossary Index