The 'five rights' of clinical reasoning: An educational model to enhance nursing students' ability to identify and manage clinically 'at risk' patients

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 515-520

  Levett Jones, Tracy ^a   Hoffman, Kerry ^a   Dempsey, Jennifer ^b   Jeong, Sarah Yeun Sim ^b   Noble, Danielle ^a   Norton, Carol Anne ^b   Roche, Janiece ^a   Hickey, Noelene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

At risk patients; Clinical reasoning; Failure to rescue; Novice nurse; Nursing student

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; LOGIC; MODEL; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; THINKING; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CUES; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING PROCESS; PATIENT RIGHTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS, NURSING; THINKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954535953     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.10.020     Document Type: Article

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