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  1. Reflective Essay on Clinical Decision Making

    Reflective Essay on Clinical Decision Making. Clinical decision making in nursing involves applying critical thinking skills to select the best available evidence based option to control risks and address patients' needs in the provision of high quality care that nurses are accountable for. - Standing, M. (2011)

  2. Decision-Making in Nursing Practice: An Integrative Literature Review

    Ideal nurse decision-making is essential to enhanced patient care outcomes. This review identified numerous complex influences in the nurse decision-making process. Decision-making in clinical nursing requires a multifaceted approach to research, education, and practice to ensure best outcomes.

  3. Effective decision-making: applying the theories to nursing practice

    Decision-making is a fundamental concept of nursing practice that conforms to a systematic trajectory involving the assessment, interpretation, evaluation and management of patient-specific situations (Dougherty et al, 2015).Shared decision-making is vital to consider in terms of patient autonomy and professional duty of care as set out in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018)Code ...

  4. Rethinking clinical decision-making to improve clinical reasoning

    Go to: Improving clinical reasoning techniques is the right way to facilitate decision-making from prognostic, diagnostic, and therapeutic points of view. However, the process to do that is to fill knowledge gaps by studying and growing experience and knowing some cognitive aspects to raise the awareness of thinking mechanisms to avoid ...

  5. (PDF) Clinical decision-making theories

    Abstract: Clinical decision-making is a cornerstone of healthcare, influencing patient diagnosis, treat-. ment, and ongoing car e. This article explores the multifaceted nature of clinical d ...

  6. Clinical Reasoning, Decisionmaking, and Action: Thinking Critically and

    Learning to provide safe and quality health care requires technical expertise, the ability to think critically, experience, and clinical judgment. The high-performance expectation of nurses is dependent upon the nurses' continual learning, professional accountability, independent and interdependent decisionmaking, and creative problem-solving abilities.

  7. Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making

    Introduction. Clinical reasoning and decision-making is the fourth concept of the Practice Competence and Excellence (PCE) dimension and the second of the four PCE concepts that form the Careful Nursing critical circle of clinical responsibility. This concept is intertwined with and follows directly from the concept of watching-assessment ...

  8. Comparative Theories in Clinical Decision Making and their Application

    Within clinical decision-making theory, 'hypothetico-deductive reasoning' is considered the most dominant approach in health care with practice based on rationality and empirical precision [Jefford et al, Reference Jefford, Fahy and Sundin 2011]. A hermeneutic examination of figures, text, verbal and non-verbal cues forms the foundation ...

  9. Clinical Judgement and Reasoning

    Clinical reasoning is the thought process which goes in the minds of clinicians and physicians during the diagnosis of illnesses. Clinicians encounter patients with various medical conditions ranging from simple to complex. Irrespective of the nature of the condition, the physician has the task of interpreting the symptoms and coming up with a ...

  10. Clinical Decision Making

    When considering theories of clinical decision making it is important to reflect on where our knowledge and information come from. The Delphi technique allows many people to contribute to the decision-making process and it may reduce the dialogue and chatter or even conflict between members of a larger group. Groups bring more complete ...

  11. Reflective Essay on Clinical Decision Making

    Reflective Essay on Clinical Decision Making. Clinical decision making in nursing involves applying critical thinking skills to select the best available evidence based option to control risks and address patients' needs in the provision of high quality care that nurses are accountable for. - Standing, M. (2011)

  12. Applying Clinical Decision Making in Adult Nursing Essay

    3734 Words. 15 Pages. Open Document. Applying Clinical Decision Making In Adult Nursing Ahh2036-N This assignment will critically analyse and justify the decisions based around a fictitious patient using a clinical decision making framework highlighting its importance to nursing practice. The chosen model will demonstrate clinical decision ...

  13. A Concept Analysis of Nurses' Clinical Decision Making: Implications

    2.3. Data Collection. For this study, data were collected through a literature search from 2000 to 2019, when the concept of clinical decision making was discussed in nursing based on the study by Hamm [] on the intuition and analysis of clinical decision making.To identify the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the concept of nurses' clinical decision making, various domestic ...

  14. Clinical Decision Making Essay

    Clinical Decision Making : Clinical Judgment Essay Clinical judgment is the clinical reasoning, which includes clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and a global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired through a process of integrating formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence- based guidelines (AACN, n.d.).

  15. Clinical decision-making in complex healthcare delivery systems

    Situation. Clinical decision-making is a complex process involving information processing, evaluation of evidence, and application of relevant knowledge to select the appropriate interventions that provide high-quality care and reduce risk of patient harm (Standing, 2007).Decision-making can range from fast, intuitive, or heuristic to carefully reasoned, analytical, or evidence-based.

  16. Rethinking clinical decision-making to improve clinical reasoning

    Improving clinical reasoning techniques is the right way to facilitate decision-making from prognostic, diagnostic, and therapeutic points of view. However, the process to do that is to fill knowledge gaps by studying and growing experience and knowing some cognitive aspects to raise the awareness of thinking mechanisms to avoid cognitive errors through correct educational training.

  17. What is clinical decision making?

    This essay should not be treated as an authoritative source of information when forming medical opinions as information may be inaccurate or out-of-date. ... stressors all can work to enhance or inhibit effective clinical decision making for a nurse. (O'Reilly, 1993) Clinical decision-making is defined as the ability to sift and synthesize ...

  18. clinical decision making essay

    This essay will explore the clinical and decision making process in adult nursing by analysing how nursing practice is applied in decision making considering the individual needs of the patient. Ms LG is a 42 years old white British female with a history of dyspepsia, constipation, continuous poorly localized abdominal pain, bloating and ...

  19. Assessment 2: Importance of Critical Self-Reflective Practice in

    Self-reflective Practice is vital in decision-making within a clinical setting. Psychologists must recognise that decision-making involves introspection and observation of the external environment. The decision-making process necessitates recognising that the specific matter requiring a decision might frequently lack clarity, like a holographic ...