Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach to Outcome-Focused Thinking

Develop the critical thinking skills you need for success in today’s challenging healthcare setting with Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach to Outcome-Focused Thinking, 4th Edition! This book’s insightful and motivational style makes the concept of critical thinking come alive. Learning difficult concepts is easy with the book’s “how-to” approach that provides supporting rationales to help you understand why and how to make decisions.

• User-friendly and motivational style with vivid examples, anecdotes, and real case scenarios brings content to life.
• Helps you work smarter—not harder—by providing workplace strategies for managing time, dealing with conflict, and giving bad news.
• Incorporates practical strategies to promote critical thinking with evidence showing why and how the strategies apply to real life.
• Emphasizes the importance of ethics- and standards-based professional practice in a world of increasing accountability to keep both you and your patients safe.
• Incorporates cultural, spiritual, and lifespan content throughout and addresses nurses’ roles in hospitals, communities, and long-term care settings for a balanced, comprehensive look at critical thinking.
• Pre-Chapter Self-Tests help you focus on learning outcomes by identifying your learning needs.
• Independent learning is easy with user-friendly features such as Key Points, Critical Thinking Exercises, unique HMO (“Help Me Out”) cartoons, and much more.

• New illustrations clarify key concepts and reflect the latest developments in critical thinking.
• UNIQUE! Applies brain-based learning principles through the use of strategies that challenge the mind to help you gain a better understanding of the content.
• A wealth of new content, including problem-focused versus outcome-focused thinking, prioritization, novice and expert thinking, evidence-based practice, and more, provides you with the latest information in the field.
• UNIQUE! Other Perspectives and Critical Moments vignettes with giraffe and elephant icons make learning this important information fun and engaging.
• Covers the Institute of Medicine’s competencies and delegation strategies based on the ANA’s Principles for Delegation.
• NCLEX® examination-style review section includes multiple-choice questions to helps you prepare for board exams.

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Reviewer:Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description:Using an outcome focused approach, this book addresses the very important issues of critical thinking and clinical judgment in nursing.
Purpose:The purpose is to assist readers to enhance their critical thinking skills for nursing practice.
Audience:Student nurses and the faculty who teach them are the intended audience.
Features:The book's six chapters define critical thinking, outline how to think critically, detail the role of critical thinking and clinical judgment in nursing, explain evidence-based practice, and discuss practicing clinical judgment and mastering common workplace skills. The helpful appendixes include sections on mind mapping, patient rights, games to promote critical thinking, an example of a critical pathway, nursing classification systems, ANA Standards of Practice, and NCLEX practice questions.
Assessment:This user-friendly book provides helpful examples, anecdotes, and case scenarios. The importance of ethics and standards-based practice is emphasized.