Chapter 4: Thinking Like a Nurse
Suggested Time Frame: 25 minutes
The goal of this chapter is to examine the importance of critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment in the provision of patient centered care and present instructional strategies that will enhance preceptee’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for quality improvement and safety, leadership and professionalism and systems based thinking in the clinical setting.
At the completion of this chapter, the participant will:
1. Define critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment and identify teaching strategies that foster these skills in the clinical (microsystem) setting.
2. Examine the use of reflection in action to develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment skills.
3. Discuss systems thinking as being a key component of quality improvement and safety.
Learning Activities:
PowerPoint Presentation “Thinking Like a Nurse”
Reflective Practice Article
Video vignette- “After a Fall”
Systems Thinking Table
Suggested Time Frame: 25 minutes
The goal of this chapter is to examine the importance of critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment in the provision of patient centered care and present instructional strategies that will enhance preceptee’s acquisition of the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for quality improvement and safety, leadership and professionalism and systems based thinking in the clinical setting.
At the completion of this chapter, the participant will:
1. Define critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment and identify teaching strategies that foster these skills in the clinical (microsystem) setting.
2. Examine the use of reflection in action to develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment skills.
3. Discuss systems thinking as being a key component of quality improvement and safety.
Learning Activities:
PowerPoint Presentation “Thinking Like a Nurse”
Reflective Practice Article
Video vignette- “After a Fall”
Systems Thinking Table