Essential Decision Making and Clinical Judgement for Nurses

by Thompson, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780443067273
• ISBN10: 0443067279
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780443067273, 9780702042522, 9780702061622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Summary

This books provides the reader with the skills and knowledge to interpret and use information effectively when exercising professional judgement and making clinical decisions with patients. The text brings together issues specific to nursing practice and reviews contemporary research evidence, highlighting highlighting the important issues for nurses. Review of up-to-date research into clinical professional judgement and decision making Focus on evidence and skills and knowledge relevant to nursing practice Combines current theory with analysis of applications in practice Learning exercises and self-assessment components in each chapter Comprehensive coverage of subject

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Uncertainty and nursing	p. 11
Probability: the language of uncertainty	p. 27
Using information in decision making	p. 39
Theoretical approaches	p. 55
What is a 'good' judgement or decision?	p. 79
When decision making goes wrong	p. 93
Avoiding errors	p. 121
Diagnosis for nurses	p. 139
Prognosis in nursing	p. 165
Evidence-based decisions: the role of decision analysis	p. 173
The economics of clinical decision making	p. 197
Involving patients in decision making	p. 217
Communicating risks and benefits	p. 235
Teaching clinical decision making and judgement	p. 247
Index	p. 267
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