Activity 1 Clinical Reasoning & Critical Thinking You will examine clinical reas

Activity 1
Clinical Reasoning & Critical Thinking
You will examine clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and clinical decision making from the perspective of a graduate level nurse.
Instructions:
You will investigate the use of clinical reasoning in developing and applying advanced health history and physical assessment skills at the graduate level. Consider contemporary nursing literature on the development of clinical reasoning and decision-making. How does the use of the nursing process enhance critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in professional nursing practice at the graduate level? Please use the submission parameters and rubric below to guide you when completing this assignment.
For this assignment, please use the following guidelines and criteria. Also, please refer to the rubric for evaluation of mastery and assignment expectations. Include the following in your completed assignment as a minimum to meet mastery of this activity:
1. Introduction of topic in one paragraph with a purpose statement
2. Clinical Reasoning
Describe how clinical reasoning is used in developing and applying advanced health history and physical assessment skills at the graduate level.
Differentiate clinical reasoning, critical thinking, clinical judgment, & clinical decision-making.
3. Nursing Process
Describe how the use of the nursing process enhances critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in professional nursing practice at the graduate level.
4. Clinical Example:
Discuss an example from your practice or the literature demonstrating the nurse’s use of critical thinking, clinical judgment, and clinical reasoning with the well-adult.
Also discuss how nursing care is provided when each of these concepts are evidenced in care of the patient within one of the following patient populations: older adult, adolescent, or one other special population of your choice.
5. Conclusion
6. References (consider contemporary nursing research studies or reliable electronic sources)
Resources:
Chapter 1, 2, 4, & 5 in Ball et al, (2019), Seidel’s guide to physical examination: An interprofessional approach (9th ed.). Elsevier.
Chapters 1 & 2 in Dains, J. et al. (2020). Advanced health assessment & clinical diagnosis in primary care (6th ed.). Elsevier.
Burbach, B., Barnason, S., & Thompson, S. A. Using “Think Aloud” to capture clinical reasoning during patient simulation. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 12(1), 1-7.
de Carvalho, E. C., de Souza Oliveira-Kumakura, A. R., & Morais, S. C. R. V. (2017). Clinical reasoning in nursing: Teaching strategies & assessment tools. Rev Bras Enferm [Internet], 70(3), 662-668.
El Hussein, M., & Hirst, S. (2015). Institutionalizing clinical reasoning: A grounded theory of the clinical reasoning processes RNs use to recognize delirium. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 41(10), 38-44.
Holder, A. G. (2018). Clinical reasoning: A state of the science report. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 15(1).
Hunter, S., & Arthur, C. (2016). Clinical reasoning of nursing students on clinical placement: Clinical educators’ perceptions. Nurse Education in Practice, 18, 73-79.
Additional Instructions:
All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
Utilize a minimum of five scholarly resources.
Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.
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