Help your students develop the multiple types of thinking they need to make safe, appropriate clinical judgments for clients who are experiencing clinical deterioration or medical complications! Alfaro’s Clinical Judgment in Nursing: A How-To Practice Approach, 8th Edition,brings these concepts to life through engaging and easy-to-understand text, diverse learning activities, and clinical judgment tips. This restructured edition emphasizes student readiness for clinical practice and the Next-Generation NCLEX® exam, with a focus on the six cognitive skills needed to make evidence-based clinical judgments.
UPDATED! Restructured coverage reflects the latest research and trends related to the multiple types of thinking needed to make safe, evidence-based clinical judgments.
Thinking Exercises throughout each chapter, and again at the end of each chapter, enable students to apply clear examples of clinical judgment cognitive skills that measure the ability to:
Recognize Cues
Analyze Cues
Prioritize Hypotheses
Generate Solutions
Take Actions
Evaluate Outcomes
UPDATED! Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) thinking exercises prepare students for the significant changes to the exam.
NEW! NGN-Style Unfolding Case Studies and Standalone Items on the companion Evolve website give students valuable practice answering these new question types to make appropriate clinical judgments.
Clear, straightforward approach provides real-life clinical scenarios that illustrate how to make effective clinical judgments in nursing practice.
Highlighted features and sections help promote deep learning, including:
This Chapter at a Glance
Learning Outcomes
Key Terms
Clinical Judgment Tip boxes
Thinking Exercise boxes
How to Make Safe Clinical Judgments chapter provides full examples of both Standalone and Unfolding Case Studies to help prepare students for the newest NGN test item types on the NCLEX® exam.
Updated throughout to reflect the latest research and thinking related to critical thinking in nursing, clinical reasoning in nursing, and clinical nursing judgment. Includes significant updates related to the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN), the 2021 AACN Essentials, and the 2021 Future of Nursing Report. Includes new NGN-style case studies on Evolve: NGN Case Studies for Faculty: 5 unfolding 10 single-episode NGN Case Studies for Students: 5 unfolding 10 single-episode
1 Introduction to Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment 2 How to Recognize Cues 3 How to Analyze Cues 4 How to Prioritize Hypotheses 5 How to Generate Solutions 6 How to Take Actions 7 How to Evaluate Outcomes 8 How to Make Safe Clinical Judgments
Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS, RN, CNE, CNEcl, ANEF, FAADN, Speaker and Curriculum Consultant for Academic Nursing Programs; Founder, Boot Camp for Nurse Educators; President, DI Associates, Inc. Littleton, Colorado, USA and Susan Andersen, MS, RN, CNE
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