title: Developing clinical reasoning strategies: cognitive shortcuts.
abstract: Incorporating decision support research and technology, such as computerized "best practice" clinical pathways, into patient care management is recommended or decreasing cognitive demands on nurses. Criticized for not representing "real-time" patient care, these standardized approaches may be used in concert with strategies for developing nurses' own clinical reasoning. Real-time clinical information processing activities are offered for staff educators to augment the development of clinical reasoning for both experienced and less-experienced nurses' decision making.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Allied Health, University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois 60435, USA. cferrario@stfrancis.edu
authors.forename: Catherine G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Ferrario
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D003662:Decision Theory; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking