In today's healthcare environment of scarce resources and challenges related to safety and quality, nurses must make decisions after decision to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient provision of care. Solid decision-making, or lack thereof, can significantly affect patient care and outcomes. Clinical reasoning-how a nurse processes information and chooses what action to take-is a skill vital to nursing practice and split-second decisions. And yet, developing the clinical reasoning to make good decisions takes time, education, experience, patience, and reflection. Along the way, nurses can benefit from a successful, practical model that demystifies and advances clinical reasoning skills. The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses, authors RuthAnne Kuiper, Sandra O'Donnell, Daniel Pesut, and Stephanie Turrise provide a model that supports learning and teaching clinical reasoning, development of reflective and complex thinking, clinical supervision, and care planning through scenarios, diagnostic cues, case webs, and more. The widely acclaimed Outcome-Present State-Test (OPT) Model serves a both a method for self-regulation in nursing and as a patient-center clinical reasoning model for aspiring and practicing nurses. This book is a must-have resource for nurse educators, clinicians, managers, administrators, and students who want to develop, hone, and fine-tune their clinical reasoning skills.

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The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses
Using the Outcome-Present State Test Model for Reflective Practice
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The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses
Using the Outcome-Present State Test Model for Reflective Practice
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Nursing SkillsTable of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I_Mastering the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning
- Chapter 1_The Development and Evolution of Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
- Chapter 2_Clinical Reasoning and Standardized Terminology
- Chapter 3_Clinical Reasoning: Thinking About Thinking
- Chapter 4_Learning the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning: Patient-In-Context Story and the Clinical Reasoning Web
- Chapter 5_Learning the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning: Framing, Outcome-Present State-Test
- Chapter 6_Learning the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning: Interventions, Judgments, and Reframing
- Part II_Applications of the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning Across the Life Span
- Chapter 7_Clinical Reasoning and Neonatal Health Issues
- Chapter 8_Clinical Reasoning and Adolescent Health Issues
- Chapter 9_Clinical Reasoning and Young Adult Health Issues
- Chapter 10_Clinical Reasoning and Women's Health Issues
- Chapter 11_Clinical Reasoning and Men's Health Issues
- Chapter 12_Clinical Reasoning and Geriatric Health Issues
- Chapter 13_Clinical Reasoning and Hospice and Palliative Care
- Part III_Innovative Applications of the OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning
- Chapter 14_Using the OPT Model with the Omaha System
- Chapter 15_Using the OPT Model for Clinical Supervision
- Chapter 16_Future Trends and Challenges
- Glossary of Terms
- Index
- From the Honor Society of Nursing
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