title: Patho-flow diagramming: a strategy for critical thinking and clinical decision making.
abstract: Developing and implementing alternative strategies to assist nursing students to gain critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills are paramount for today's nurse educator. Patho-flow diagramming is offered as a strategy that merges nursing process and pathophysiology with approaches used effectively in general education to develop thinking skills.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reynolds
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D003479:Curriculum; D004194:Disease; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009736:Nursing Process; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013781:Texas; D013850:Thinking