Full Description
Teaches students how to think like an APRN
This book describes an innovative model for helping APRN students develop the clinical reasoning skills required to navigate complex patient care needs andcoordination in advanced nursing practice. This model, the Outcome-Present-State-Test (OPT), encompasses a clear, step-by-step process that students can use to learn the skills of differential diagnosis and hone clinical reasoning strategies. This method facilitates understanding of the relationships among patient problems, outcomes, and interventions that focus on promoting patient safety and care coordination. It moves beyond traditional ways of problemsolving by focusing on patient scenarios and stories and juxtaposing issues and outcomes that have been derived from an analysis of patient problems,evidence-based interventions, and desired outcomes.
The model offers a blueprint for using standardized health care languages and provides strategies for developing reflective and complex thinking thatbecomes habitual. It embodies several levels of perspective related to patient-centered care planning, team-centered negotiation, and health care systemconsiderations. Through patient stories and case scenarios, the text highlights care coordination strategies critical in complex patient situations. Itprovides students with the tools to collect patient information, determine priorities for care, and test interventions to reach health care outcomes bymaking clinical judgments during the problem-solving process. Concept maps illustrate complex patient care issues and how they relate to each other. For faculty use, the text provides links to relevant APN competencies and provides guidelines for using the OPT when supervising students in field settings.
Key Features:
Delivers a concrete learning model for developing creative thinking and problem solving in the clinical setting
Offers a blueprint and structure for using standardized health care languages
Includes patient stories and case scenarios to illustrate effective use of the OPT model
Highlights care coordination strategies associated with complex client situations with the use of the Care Coordination Clinical Reasoning model
Reinforces methods of reaching a diagnosis, outcomes, and interventions and how to duplicate the process
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: CARE COORDINATION CLINICAL REASONING FOUNDATIONS
1. Care Coordination Clinical Reasoning: Contemporary Competency Expectations
2. Knowledge Complexity and Clinical Reasoning: Standardized Terminologies
3. The Evolving Nature of Nursing Process and Clinical Reasoning
4. Essentials of Care Coordination Clinical Reasoning
5. Thinking Skills That Support Care Coordination Clinical Reasoning
PART II: CARE COORDINATION CLINICAL REASONING CASE STUDIES
6. Care Coordination for a Patient in Primary Community Health
7. Care Coordination for a Psychological/Mental Health Patient
8. Care Coordination for a Patient in Acute Care
9. Care Coordination for a Veteran/Military Patient
10. Care Coordination for a Pediatric Patient
11. Care Coordination for a Maternity Patient
12. Care Coordination for a Neonatal Patient
13. Care Coordination for a Patient in Rehabilitation
14. Care Coordination for Long-Term Care of the Adult Patient
PART III: CARE COORDINATION CLINICAL REASONING INTO THE FUTURE
15. Future Trends and Challenges
Glossary
Index
