Clinical Reasoning, 3rd edition
Published by Pearson Education Australia (October 6, 2022) © 2023
- Tracy Levett-Jones
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An Australian text designed to address the key area of clinical reasoning in nursing practice
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The 3rd edition provides a series of authentic, engaging and meaningful scenarios that guide nursing students through the clinical reasoning process, while challenging them to think critically and creatively about the nursing care they provide.
It promotes deep learning and opportunities to rehearse how to respond to real clinical situations in ways that are both person-centred and clinically astute.
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Key features
- Scenarios with 8 step process of the clinical reasoning cycle. For each critical concept, the content is all structured around a scenario with an 8-step process. This gives students the opportunity to connect the theory to something real in a low stakes environment, while also solidifying a step-by-step process they can follow and apply in study and real life.
- Quick Quiz - At the end of relevant sections, these scaffolded quizzes consolidate student's learning of key concepts developed and connecting it with the scenario from the chapter.
New to this edition
- Coverage of aged care updated - Aged care policy has been reviewed by the government and students need to have the most up-to-date information about aged care and other topics.
- PSCF and NSQHS standards included - There is increased importance on patient safety standards, critical for any to-be nurse, and references to these standards will help students understand how the relevant standards are applied to topics.
- NMBA standards as separate feature - The NMBA standards are critical for any nurse and including them as a feature allows students to clearly see how topics and standards apply to in-practice nursing.
- Chapter 12 - focus on Parkinson's disease as opposed to discussion of general complex and chronic health conditions - A focus on one disease allows for deep and thorough understanding of how diseases can impact a person's life, and teaches students how to apply knowledge learnt to other diseases and situations.
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Table of contents
- Chapter 1 Clinical reasoning: What it is and why it matters
- Chapter 2 Caring for a person experiencing an adverse drug reaction
- Chapter 3 Caring for a person with fluid and electrolyte imbalance
- Chapter 4 Caring for a person experiencing pain
- Chapter 5 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes
- Chapter 6 Caring for a person experiencing respiratory distress and hypoxia
- Chapter 7 Caring for a person with a cardiac condition
- Chapter 8 Caring for a person with an acquired brain injury
- Chapter 9 Caring for a person receiving blood component therapies
- Chapter 10 Caring for a person with sepsis
- Chapter 11 Caring for a person with substance dependence and complex post-traumatic distress syndrome
- Chapter 12 Caring for a person with Parkinson's disease
- Chapter 13 Caring for a person experiencing an acute psychotic episode
- Chapter 14 Caring for an older person with altered cognition
- Chapter 15 Caring for a young person with a disability
- Chapter 16 Caring for a person requiring palliative care
- Chapter 17 Caring for a person who is refusing treatment
Author bios
Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation.
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