Strengthening clinical reasoning in graduate nursing students.
Clinical reasoning skills are the cornerstone of successful nursing practice. To strengthen the clinical reasoning skills of graduate nursing students, faculty at one university developed an innovative course focusing on theoretical knowledge about clinical decision making and reflective exercises to foster student thinking.
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College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. eoneill@umassd.edu
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D007600:Judgment; D019359:Knowledge; D008128:Logic; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*