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Monday, November 2, 2009: 3:50 PM
Learning Objective 1: describe the use of three clinical tools to enhance nursing students' clinical judgment.
Learning Objective 2: verbalize the significance of using innovative clinical models to enhance clinical judgment and communication.
Nursing students often struggle in the clinical setting with understanding how to use information they have gathered in their assessments to affect patient care. Using a clinical reason model provides nursing students with a roadmap to use in planning nursing care and evaluating the effectiveness of care. In addition, nursing students often lack awareness of the patient’s environment which would enable them to recognize situations that place their patients at risk or require immediate intervention. Using a variety of innovative clinical tools, we have collected evidence in student’s situational awareness and clinical reasoning through the use of both quantitative and qualitative measures. This presentation will review the innovative clinical tools that we utilized as well as the impact of these tools on clinical reasoning.