Advanced Clinical Decision Making Assessment
AIM:
The aim of this task is for you to apply the clinical reasoning cycle (Levett-Jones, 2012) to review a clinical decision. Familiarisation with the clinical reasoning cycle will support you to provide safe quality care as a practicing Registered Nurse and will provide a foundation for the next essay in this course.
TASK INSTRUCTIONS:
Write an essay that applies the clinical reasoning cycle (Levett-Jones. 2012) to a clinical decision that you have been involved with during a BN clinical placement. The clinical decision you select can be a decision that went well or one with a negative outcome. You only need to review and describe one example of a clinical decision.
Examples of clinical decisions may include (but are not limited to):
- Responding to a change in the patients condition
- Care planning considering the patient's present health status
- Reviewing planned patient interventions including medications
- Outcome from effective or ineffective communication
- Discharge planning
In your essay you must:
1) Provide a clear description of the clinical decision making process using the first seven of the eight stages of the clinical reasoning cycle (Levett-Jones. 2012).
2) Use literature where relevant to support the key points you make to demonstrate evidence based practice.