Assignment Task: Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment
Assignment Content:
Part 1:
Competencies
o Evaluate factors integral to clinical reasoning.
o Explain the impact of relational inquiry when recognizing and analyzing cues to action in the context of clinical reasoning.
o Integrate modes of inquiry to generate and evaluate hypotheses in the context of clinical reasoning.
o Determine appropriate responses when integrating situated cognition into clinical reasoning.
o Modify clinical judgment within an iterative, outcome-based cycle of clinical reasoning and client needs.
o Evaluate the importance of personal and professional lifelong learning, including the interrelationships of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment.
Scenario:
You applied to become a preceptor for nursing students. Part of the application process requires you to select a client who presented unique challenges to care based on changes in condition. Before the interview, you must submit the SBAR and clinical reasoning and clinical judgment templates for the selection committee to review.
Instructions:
- Choose a client from a previous clinical experience that encountered a change in condition and provided challenges to care.
- Complete all components of the SBAR template using information from this previous clinical experience.
Part II:
Complete the clinical reasoning and clinical judgment template, including summaries of these components of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment:
o Recognizing Cues, including scanning the environment, identifying cues and ensuring the validity of cues, supported with examples and rationales
o Analyzing Cues, including clustering cues and differentiating relevant and irrelevant information supported with examples and rationales
o Hypothesis, including generating hypotheses, prioritizing hypotheses, and predicting potential complications supported with examples, rationales and evidence from credible sources
o Generate Solutions, including selecting interventions, managing potential complications and setting priorities supported with examples, rationales, and evidence from credible sources
o Actions, including collaborating with team members, implementing solutions, delegating, communicating and teaching supported with examples, rationales, and evidence from credible sources
o Evaluations, including evaluating data, reflecting and correcting the reasoning process supported with examples, rationales, and evidence from credible sources