Includes bibliographical references and index.

The development and evolution of clinical reasoning in nursing -- Clinical reasoning and standardized terminology -- Clinical reasoning : thinking about thinking -- The OPT model of clinical reasoning : understanding the patient in context story and the clinical reasoning web -- The OPT model of clinical understanding the present State-Outcome State-Test -- The OPT model of clinical reasoning : understanding judgments and reframing -- Clinical reasoning and neonatal health issues -- Clinical reasoning and adolescent health issues -- Clinical reasoning and young adult health issues -- Clinical reasoning and women's health issues -- Clinical reasoning and men's health issues -- Clinical reasoning and geriatric health issues -- Clinical reasoning and hospice and palliative care -- Applying the OPT model of clinical reasoning using the Omaha System -- Applying the OPT model of clinical reasoning in clinical supervision -- Clinical reasoning : future trends and challenges.

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In today's healthcare environment of scarce resources and challenges related to safety and quality, nurses must make decision after decision to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient provision of care. Solid decision-making, or lack thereof, can significantly affect patient care and outcomes. Clinical reasoning ︣how a nurse processes information and chooses what action to take ︣is a skill vital to nursing practice and split-second decisions. And yet, developing the clinical reasoning to make good decisions takes time, education, experience, patience, and reflection. Along the way, nurses can benefit from a successful, practical model that demystifies and advances clinical reasoning skills. In The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses, authors RuthAnne Kuiper, Sandra O'Donnell, Daniel Pesut, and Stephanie Turrise provide a model that supports learning and teaching clinical reasoning, development of reflective and complex thinking, clinical supervision, and care planning through scenarios, diagnostic cues, case webs, and more.