2024
Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
Name: Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
Code: ENF14449L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This UC contributes, through its programmatic contents, to the understanding of what clinical reasoning is and what it represents in the process of care.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives
1. Understand what clinical reasoning is and what it represents in the caring process
2. Understand the procedural dimension of clinical reasoning in decision-making
3. Understand different models of decision-making
Skills
• Demonstrates understanding of the need for clinical reasoning
• Know the concepts that structure the clinical reasoning
• Knows the decision models
• Can recognize specific clinical data according to a theoretical framework
• Recognizes different sources of data and information
• Can think critically about clinical data
• Can analyze data in the light of theoretical knowledge or scientific evidence
• Can associate analytical reasoning with intuitive reasoning
• Can perform diagnostic judgments
• Can reflect on the decisions you have made
1. Understand what clinical reasoning is and what it represents in the caring process
2. Understand the procedural dimension of clinical reasoning in decision-making
3. Understand different models of decision-making
Skills
• Demonstrates understanding of the need for clinical reasoning
• Know the concepts that structure the clinical reasoning
• Knows the decision models
• Can recognize specific clinical data according to a theoretical framework
• Recognizes different sources of data and information
• Can think critically about clinical data
• Can analyze data in the light of theoretical knowledge or scientific evidence
• Can associate analytical reasoning with intuitive reasoning
• Can perform diagnostic judgments
• Can reflect on the decisions you have made
Contents
The clinical nursing environments
• The nature of the clinical problems
• The concepts of clinical data, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning, clinical judgments, diagnostic evaluation, decisíon making, critical thinking, the nursing process and clinical supervision
• The collection of clinical data (sources and strategies)
• Strategies for analyzing clinical data (modalities of critical thinking) Analytical thinking, Inductive and Deductive and, Intuitive thinking
• The factual, evaluative and interpretive analysis of clinical data
Exercises The collection and analyzing clinical data performed by students under the supervision of teachers
• the clinical reasoning in the diagnostic evaluation and the clinical reasoning in the decisíon making
• Strategies for analyzing clinical data
• Decisions in simulated context
• Decisions in the action
• The relevance of a standardized language
• Reflection in action and on action
• The nature of the clinical problems
• The concepts of clinical data, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning, clinical judgments, diagnostic evaluation, decisíon making, critical thinking, the nursing process and clinical supervision
• The collection of clinical data (sources and strategies)
• Strategies for analyzing clinical data (modalities of critical thinking) Analytical thinking, Inductive and Deductive and, Intuitive thinking
• The factual, evaluative and interpretive analysis of clinical data
Exercises The collection and analyzing clinical data performed by students under the supervision of teachers
• the clinical reasoning in the diagnostic evaluation and the clinical reasoning in the decisíon making
• Strategies for analyzing clinical data
• Decisions in simulated context
• Decisions in the action
• The relevance of a standardized language
• Reflection in action and on action
Teaching Methods
The lectures are expository and present the available knowledge about the clinical reasoning process and its relevance to decision making. The practical classes are used for discussion and analysis of everyday situations and that mirror human health experiences. Each situation is analyzed and interpreted using the knowledge of other courses and / or scientific evidence. The use of databases is done from the judgment prepared based on simulated data. Laboratory practices training instrumental skills from simulated situations. The evaluation of the unit goes through a frequency that calls for the memorization of basic concepts and a group work that simulates the phase of data collection and diagnostic judgments about the collected data. Individual work should explore the concept and process of diagnostic evaluation. The evaluation by exam has a theoretical component and another of analysis of a clinical case.
All evaluation moments comply with academic regulations.
All evaluation moments comply with academic regulations.
Teaching Staff
- Celso Filipe Boto da Silva [responsible]
- Marta Sofia Inácio Catarino
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