Enhancing diagnostic reasoning skills in nurse practitioner students: a teaching tool.
The Advanced Health Assessment course provides an opportunity to focus on critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills as students transition to the nurse practitioner role. The authors describe a structured teaching tool designed for faculty to use in facilitating diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment. This tool gives faculty a format to use in the classroom or online for helping students decide which data to collect and which data are important in developing hypothesis driven differential diagnoses.
Zunkel
Gretchen M
GM
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, 6-101 Weaver-Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. zunke004@umn.edu
Cesarotti
Evelyn L
EL
Rosdahl
Dana
D
McGrath
Jacqueline M
JM
D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D013664:Teaching Materials; D013850:Thinking; D014481:United States