Description
Assignment Content
Competency
Explain the impact of relational inquiry when recognizing and analyzing cues to action in the context of clinical reasoning.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
Your first job as a newly licensed nurse is in a residency program for critical care. You are at the mid-point of the residency, which contains evaluation exercises to determine your clinical reasoning abilities. The evaluation includes components you must complete and submit to your residency portfolio, including self-reflection about clinical reasoning abilities based on performance on thinking exercises and self-reflection about challenging clinical experiences and the impact on the growth of your clinical reasoning abilities.
Instructions
Within this course, there are assigned thinking exercises. These exercises are meant to assist in your understanding and application of parts of the clinical reasoning/clinical judgment skill set. Thinking exercises promote self-reflection and discussion about the clinical reasoning process.Access the textbook, Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing, in Course Materials. In the textbook are the Thinking Exercises required for this deliverable. If there are any issues accessing the textbook, reach out to the Personal Support Center.
Part I:
In the textbook, Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing, complete these Thinking Exercises:
3A-1
3A-7
3B-1
3B-3
25A-1
25A-2
Review the rationales for answers to the selected Thinking Exercises, and reflect on why these Thinking Exercises were challenging.
Respond to the following in a Word document:
Describe why the Thinking Exercises were challenging, including supporting examples and rationales
Explain individual strengths for clinical reasoning, including examples and rationales
Select clinical reasoning areas needing development, including examples and rationales
Part II:
In a Word document, reflect on how you have grown your clinical reasoning abilities since graduation and licensure.
Describe three client experiences where the process of collecting cues was challenging, including examples and rationales
Explain strategies and tools used to overcome these challenges to collecting cues, including examples, rationales, and evidence from credible sources
