Main description:

What's behind every healed patient? Critical thinking! Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach, 5th Edition, provides the tools you need to become a safe, competent nurse. Using an inspiring, insightful, "how-to" approach, this book helps you develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and test-taking skills in preparation for the NCLEX^® Examination and, even more importantly, apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning to nursing practice. Critical thinking and clinical reasoning strategies come to life through the use of real-life scenarios and decision-making tools, all supported with evidence for why the strategies work. Expert author Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre makes the concepts of critical thinking and clinical reasoning come alive, so you can start thinking like a nurse and learn essential critical thinking and clinical judgment reasoning skills for nursing practice.

Contents:

1. What are Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment?

2. How to Develop Critical Thinking

3. Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment

4. Ethical Reasoning, Evidence-Based Practice, Teaching Others, Teaching Ourselves, and Test-Taking

5. Practicing Clinical Reasoning Skills: Applying Nursing Process

6. Developing Interpersonal, Teamwork, and Self-management Skills

Response Key for Exercises in Chapters 1 to 5

Appendix A: Concept Mapping: Getting in the "Right" State of Mind

Appendix B: Key Brain Parts Involved in Thinking

Appendix C: Patients' Rights

Appendix D: ANA Standards of Practice and Professional Performance for Registered Nurses

Appendix E: Comprehensive Patient Admission Tool

Appendix F: NCLEX Practice Questions

Glossary

Index