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NSGD 2256: Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Conceptual understanding - ANSWER - Clinical judgement is an
essential type of thinking in nursing
- Clinical takes place in practice settings and refers to how
nurses interpret information and make inferences
- Clinical judgement supports nurses to make sense of each
unique patient situations, allowing them to determine what
actions are warranted in a given situation
Conceptual relationships - ANSWER - Clinical judgement
requires application of knowledge across a broad range of
physiological and psychological concepts
Scope of clinical judgement - ANSWER Evidence-based practice,
standards-based approaches, nursing process
Context: Settings where clinical judgement is required -
ANSWER All settings
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Promotes developing clinical judgement - ANSWER Learning to
recognize patterns, applying concepts to nursing practice,
skillful responding
Nursing Process - ANSWER Assessment, Analysis, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Tanner's Clinical Judgement Model - ANSWER Noticing,
Interpreting, Responding, Reflecting
NCSBN Clinical Judgement Measurement Model - ANSWER
Recognize cues, Analyze cues, Prioritize hypotheses, generate
solutions, take action, evaluate outcomes
Clinical Judgement according to Tanner (2006) - ANSWER - A
determination about a client's health and illness status
- Their health concerns and needs
- The capacity to engage in their own care
- The decision to intervene/act or not- and if action is required,
what action
NSGD 2256: Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Conceptual understanding - ANSWER - Clinical judgement is an
essential type of thinking in nursing
- Clinical takes place in practice settings and refers to how
nurses interpret information and make inferences
- Clinical judgement supports nurses to make sense of each
unique patient situations, allowing them to determine what
actions are warranted in a given situation
Conceptual relationships - ANSWER - Clinical judgement
requires application of knowledge across a broad range of
physiological and psychological concepts
Scope of clinical judgement - ANSWER Evidence-based practice,
standards-based approaches, nursing process
Context: Settings where clinical judgement is required -
ANSWER All settings
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Promotes developing clinical judgement - ANSWER Learning to
recognize patterns, applying concepts to nursing practice,
skillful responding
Nursing Process - ANSWER Assessment, Analysis, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Tanner's Clinical Judgement Model - ANSWER Noticing,
Interpreting, Responding, Reflecting
NCSBN Clinical Judgement Measurement Model - ANSWER
Recognize cues, Analyze cues, Prioritize hypotheses, generate
solutions, take action, evaluate outcomes
Clinical Judgement according to Tanner (2006) - ANSWER - A
determination about a client's health and illness status
- Their health concerns and needs
- The capacity to engage in their own care
- The decision to intervene/act or not- and if action is required,
what action
