Main description:

Clinical decision-making is an indispensable facet of professional nursing care. It is essential that students develop sound decision-making skills in order to deal with the challenges they will encounter as registered nurses. This book enables pre-registration nursing students to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively. The structure of the book helps the student progress in effective decision-making right from the first to final year of their programme. The book links theory to previous students' experiences and clinical scenarios to show how to use these skills in practice.

Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is:

Affordable
Mapped to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters
Focused on applying theory to practice
Full of active learning features

Contents:

Introduction
What is clinical judgement and decision-making in nursing?
Collaborative clinical decision-making
Using observation to inform decisions
Systematic clinical decision-making
Standardised clinical decision-making
Prioritising decisions in delivering care
Experience and intuition in decision-making
Reflective judgement and decision-making
Ethical sensitivity in decision-making
Accountability for nursing decisions
Confidence in clinical decision-making
Matrix decision-making model and 'PERSON' evaluation tool