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.
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, 6-101 Weaver-Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. zunke004@umn.edu
Gretchen M
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Zunkel
Evelyn L
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Cesarotti
Dana
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Rosdahl
Jacqueline M
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McGrath
D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D013664:Teaching Materials; D013850:Thinking; D014481:United States